CVE-2014-9879

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-264

Description

The mdss mdp3 driver in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 devices does not validate user-space data, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28769221 and Qualcomm internal bug CR524490.

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/commit/?id=ecc8116e1befb3a764109f47ba0389434ddabbe4
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=ecc8116e1befb3a764109f47ba0389434ddabbe4

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