CVE-2014-9870

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-08-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The Linux kernel before 3.11 on ARM platforms, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices, does not properly consider user-space access to the TPIDRURW register, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28749743 and Qualcomm internal bug CR561044.

Affected products

Android: through 6.0.1
Linux kernel: through 3.10.101

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a4780adeefd042482f624f5e0d577bf9cdcbb760
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a4780adeefd042482f624f5e0d577bf9cdcbb760
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=4f57652fcd2dce7741f1ac6dc0417e2f265cd1de
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a4780adeefd042482f624f5e0d577bf9cdcbb760
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a4780adeefd042482f624f5e0d577bf9cdcbb760
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=4f57652fcd2dce7741f1ac6dc0417e2f265cd1de

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