Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Qualcomm Components on Nexus 5 Devices

CVE-2014-9879 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The mdss mdp3 driver in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 devices does not validate user-space data, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28769221 and Qualcomm internal bug CR524490.

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