PT-2016-3546 · Google · Android

Published 2016-08-06 · Updated 2016-11-28 · CVE-2014-9878

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Android versions prior to 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 devices

Description The issue allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application due to the failure of the mmc block test.c component to reject kernel-space buffer addresses.

Recommendations For Android versions prior to 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 devices, update to a version released after 2016-08-05 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-9878

Affected Products

Android

References · 7

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9878 · Vendor Advisory
• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9878 · Security Note
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=96a62c1de93a44e6ca69514411baf4b3d67f6dee · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9878 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9878 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/92219 · Note