CVE-2014-9894

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 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-200

Description

drivers/misc/qseecom.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 7 (2013) devices does not ensure that certain name strings end in a '\0' character, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28749708 and Qualcomm internal bug CR545736.

Affected products

Android: through 6.0.1

References

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92222
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=83214431cd02674c70402b160b16b7427e28737f
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92222
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=83214431cd02674c70402b160b16b7427e28737f

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