CVE-2014-9900

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

The ethtool_get_wol function in net/core/ethtool.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices, does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28803952 and Qualcomm internal bug CR570754.

Affected products

Android: through 6.0.1
Linux kernel: through 4.7

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=63c317dbee97983004dffdd9f742a20d17150071
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=63c317dbee97983004dffdd9f742a20d17150071

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