CVE-2014-9897

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

sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/msm-lsm-client.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 devices does not validate certain user-space data, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28769856 and Qualcomm internal bug CR563752.

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=46135d80765cb70a914f02a6e7b6abe64679ec86
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=46135d80765cb70a914f02a6e7b6abe64679ec86

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