CVE-2014-9870 Information

Description

The Linux kernel before 3.11 on ARM platforms as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices does not properly consider user-space access to the TPIDRURW register which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application aka Android internal bug 28749743 and Qualcomm internal bug CR561044.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a4780adeefd042482f624f5e0d577bf9cdcbb760 http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a4780adeefd042482f624f5e0d577bf9cdcbb760 https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=4f57652fcd2dce7741f1ac6dc0417e2f265cd1de

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