CVE-2014-9798 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2014-9798?

CVE-2014-9798 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 11 Jul 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-284

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9798?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2014-9798?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-9798 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2014-9798 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9798 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-r9c8-73rm-jmjv.