Privilege Escalation via Crafted Application in Qualcomm Components on Nexus 5 and 7 Devices

Privilege Escalation via Crafted Application in Qualcomm Components on Nexus 5 and 7 Devices

CVE-2014-9778 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The vid_dec_set_h264_mv_buffers function in drivers/video/msm/vidc/common/dec/vdec.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices does not validate the number of buffers, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28598515 and Qualcomm internal bug CR563694.

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