CVE-2014-9803

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-19

Description

arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h in the Linux kernel before 3.15-rc5-next-20140519, as used in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5X and 6P devices, mishandles execute-only pages, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28557020.

Affected products

Android: through 6.0.1
Linux kernel: through 3.15

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5a0fdfada3a2aa50d7b947a2e958bf00cbe0d830
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5a0fdfada3a2aa50d7b947a2e958bf00cbe0d830
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/next/patch-v3.15-rc5-next-20140519.xz
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5a0fdfada3a2aa50d7b947a2e958bf00cbe0d830
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5a0fdfada3a2aa50d7b947a2e958bf00cbe0d830
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/next/patch-v3.15-rc5-next-20140519.xz

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