UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9891

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9891

    Published: 6 Aug 2016Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Aliases:
    CVE-2014-9891

    Summary:

    Details: drivers/misc/qseecom.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 devices does not validate certain buffer addresses, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that makes an ioctl call, aka Android internal bug 28749283 and Qualcomm internal bug CR550061.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9891, http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html, https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=c10f03f191307f7114af89933f2d91b830150094, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9891

    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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