Privilege Escalation via User-Space Pointer Mishandling in Qualcomm Components on Nexus 5 and 7 Devices

Privilege Escalation via User-Space Pointer Mishandling in Qualcomm Components on Nexus 5 and 7 Devices

CVE-2014-9877 · MEDIUM Severity

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

drivers/media/platform/msm/camera_v2/sensor/actuator/msm_actuator.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices mishandles a user-space pointer, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28768281 and Qualcomm internal bug CR547231.

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