CVE-2014-9895 Information

Description

drivers/media/media-device.c in the Linux kernel before 3.11 as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices does not properly initialize certain data structures which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application aka Android internal bug 28750150 and Qualcomm internal bug CR570757 a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-1739.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c88e739b1fad662240e99ecbd0bdaac871717987 http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92222 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c88e739b1fad662240e99ecbd0bdaac871717987 https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=cc4b26575602e492efd986e9a6ffc4278cee53b5

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.5