CVE-2014-9798

platform/msm_shared/dev_tree.c in the Qualcomm bootloader in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5 devices does not check the relationship between tags addresses and aboot addresses, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (OS outage) via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28821448 and Qualcomm internal bug CR681965.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - security@android.com

Published

2016-07-11

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-284

Affected products

• Android (Google)

References

• http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/lk/commit/?id=b05eed2491a098bf627ac485a5b43d2f4fae2484