CVE-2014-9798 Information

Description

platform/msm_shared/dev_tree.c in the Qualcomm bootloader in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5 devices does not check the relationship between tags addresses and aboot addresses which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (OS outage) via a crafted application aka Android internal bug 28821448 and Qualcomm internal bug CR681965.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/lk/commit/?id=b05eed2491a098bf627ac485a5b43d2f4fae2484

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5