PT-2016-3539 · Google+1 · Android+1

Published 2016-07-11 · Updated 2016-07-11 · CVE-2014-9798

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.1

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Android versions prior to 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5 devices

Description The issue is related to the Qualcomm bootloader in Android, where the platform/msm shared/dev tree.c file does not properly check the relationship between tags addresses and aboot addresses. This allows attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an OS outage, via a crafted application.

Recommendations For Android versions prior to 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5 devices, update the operating system to a version released after 2016-07-05 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Improper Access Control

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-284

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-9798

Affected Products

Android

Qualcomm Bootloader

References · 6

• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9798 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9798 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9798 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9798 · Vendor Advisory
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/lk/commit/?id=b05eed2491a098bf627ac485a5b43d2f4fae2484 · Note