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-2014-9782 · HIGH Severity

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

drivers/media/platform/msm/camera_v2/sensor/actuator/msm_actuator.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices does not validate direction and step parameters, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28431531 and Qualcomm internal bug CR511349.

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