Privilege Escalation via Length Validation Vulnerability in Qualcomm Components

CVE-2014-9887 · HIGH Severity

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

drivers/misc/qseecom.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices does not validate certain length values, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28804057 and Qualcomm internal bug CR636633.

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