Pointer Validation Vulnerability in Qualcomm Components on Nexus 5 and 7 Devices

Pointer Validation Vulnerability in Qualcomm Components on Nexus 5 and 7 Devices

CVE-2014-9790 · HIGH Severity

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

drivers/mmc/core/debugfs.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices does not validate pointers used in read and write operations, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28769136 and Qualcomm internal bug CR545716.

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