CVE-2014-7953 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2014-7953?

CVE-2014-7953 is a high-severity vulnerability in Google Android, published on 7 Jul 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Race condition in the bindBackupAgent method in the ActivityManagerService in Android 4.4.4 allows local users with adb shell access to execute arbitrary code or any valid package as system by running "pm install" with the target apk, and simultaneously running a crafted script to process logcat's output looking for a dexopt line, which once found should execute bindBackupAgent with the uid member of the ApplicationInfo parameter set to 1000.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-7953?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2014-7953?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-7953 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2014-7953 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-7953 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-c97p-79cx-vqh9.