CVE-2014-9790

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-07-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

drivers/mmc/core/debugfs.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices does not validate pointers used in read and write operations, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28769136 and Qualcomm internal bug CR545716.

Affected products

Android: through 6.0.1

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91628
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=6ed921bda8cbb505e8654dfc1095185b0bccc38e
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit?id=9bc30c0d1832f7dd5b6fa10d5e48a29025176569
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91628
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=6ed921bda8cbb505e8654dfc1095185b0bccc38e
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit?id=9bc30c0d1832f7dd5b6fa10d5e48a29025176569

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