Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Qualcomm Components on Nexus 5 and 7 Devices

Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Qualcomm Components on Nexus 5 and 7 Devices

CVE-2014-9886 · MEDIUM Severity

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

arch/arm/mach-msm/qdsp6v2/ultrasound/usf.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices does not properly validate input parameters, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28815575 and Qualcomm internal bug CR555030.

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