CVE-2014-9877

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: 2016-08-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-19

Description

drivers/media/platform/msm/camera_v2/sensor/actuator/msm_actuator.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices mishandles a user-space pointer, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28768281 and Qualcomm internal bug CR547231.

Affected products

Android: through 6.0.1

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=f0c0112a6189747a3f24f20210157f9974477e03
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=f0c0112a6189747a3f24f20210157f9974477e03

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