CVE-2014-9878

high

Description

drivers/mmc/card/mmc_block_test.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 devices does not reject kernel-space buffer addresses, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28769208 and Qualcomm internal bug CR547479.

References

https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=96a62c1de93a44e6ca69514411baf4b3d67f6dee

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-08-06

Updated: 2026-05-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00076