UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9885

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9885

    Published: 6 Aug 2016Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Aliases:
    CVE-2014-9885

    Summary:

    Details: Format string vulnerability in drivers/thermal/qpnp-adc-tm.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that provides format string specifiers in a name, aka Android internal bug 28769959 and Qualcomm internal bug CR562261.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9885, http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html, https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=a1d5a4cbd5aa8656bc23b40c7cc43941e10f89c3, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9885

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-flo

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    3.4.0-5.19
    3.4.0-5.22
    3.4.0-5.23

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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