CVE-2014-9879 Information

Description

The mdss mdp3 driver in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 devices does not validate user-space data which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application aka Android internal bug 28769221 and Qualcomm internal bug CR524490.

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/2016-08-01.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219 https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=ecc8116e1befb3a764109f47ba0389434ddabbe4

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