CVE-2014-0974 Information

Description

The boot_linux_from_mmc function in app/aboot/aboot.c in the Little Kernel (LK) bootloader as distributed with Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products does not properly validate a certain address value which allows attackers to write data to a controllable memory location by leveraging the ability to initiate an attempted boot of an arbitrary image.

Reference

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html https://www.codeaurora.org/projects/security-advisories/lk-insufficient-verification-tagaddr-when-loading-device-tree-cve-2014-0974