CVE-2014-9777 Information

Description

The vid_dec_set_meta_buffers function in drivers/video/msm/vidc/common/dec/vdec.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices does not validate the number of buffers which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application aka Android internal bug 28598501 and Qualcomm internal bug CR563654.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91628 https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=17bfaf64ad503d2e6607d2d3e0956f25bf07eb43

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8