CVE-2014-9792

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-189

Description

arch/arm/mach-msm/ipc_router.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5 devices uses an incorrect integer data type, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28769399 and Qualcomm internal bug CR550606.

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-3.10/commit/?id=a3e3dd9fc0a2699ae053ffd3efb52cdc73ad94cd
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91628
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=a3e3dd9fc0a2699ae053ffd3efb52cdc73ad94cd

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