Unvalidated Start and Length Values Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Qualcomm Components

CVE-2014-9780 · HIGH Severity

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

drivers/video/msm/mdss/mdp3_ctrl.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5, 5X, and 6P devices does not validate start and length values, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28602014 and Qualcomm internal bug CR542222.

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