CVE-2014-9795

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% 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

app/aboot/aboot.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5 devices does not properly check for an integer overflow, which allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via crafted start and size values, aka Android internal bug 28820720 and Qualcomm internal bug CR681957, a related issue to CVE-2014-4325.

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/lk/commit/?id=ce2a0ea1f14298abc83729f3a095adab43342342
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/lk/commit/?id=fc3b31f81a1c128c2bcc745564a075022cd72a2e
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91628
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/lk/commit/?id=ce2a0ea1f14298abc83729f3a095adab43342342
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/lk/commit/?id=fc3b31f81a1c128c2bcc745564a075022cd72a2e

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