Unvalidated Parameter Vulnerability in Qualcomm Components on Nexus 5 Devices

CVE-2014-9789 · HIGH Severity

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

The (1) alloc and (2) free APIs in arch/arm/mach-msm/qdsp6v2/msm_audio_ion.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5 devices do not validate parameters, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28749392 and Qualcomm internal bug CR556425.

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