CVE-2014-9880

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

drivers/video/msm/vidc/common/enc/venc.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 7 (2013) devices does not validate VEN_IOCTL_GET_SEQUENCE_HDR ioctl calls, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28769352 and Qualcomm internal bug CR556356.

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=f2a3f5e63e15e97a66e8f5a300457378bcb89d9c
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=f2a3f5e63e15e97a66e8f5a300457378bcb89d9c

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