Off-by-one error privilege escalation vulnerability in Qualcomm components on Nexus 5 and 7 devices

CVE-2014-9890 · HIGH Severity

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

Off-by-one error in drivers/media/platform/msm/camera_v2/sensor/cci/msm_cci.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that sends an I2C command, aka Android internal bug 28770207 and Qualcomm internal bug CR529177.

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