Heap-based buffer overflow in Qualcomm components on Nexus 5 and 7 devices allows privilege escalation

Heap-based buffer overflow in Qualcomm components on Nexus 5 and 7 devices allows privilege escalation

CVE-2014-9786 · HIGH Severity

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

Heap-based buffer overflow in 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 allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28557260 and Qualcomm internal bug CR545979.

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