CVE-2014-9874 Memory corruption in n/a
A buffer overflow in Qualcomm audio components allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application on affected Android devices.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2014-9874?
CVE-2014-9874 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Google Android, published on 6 Aug 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
Buffer overflow in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5, 5X, 6P, and 7 (2013) devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, related to arch/arm/mach-msm/qdsp6v2/audio_utils.c and sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/q6asm.c, aka Android internal bug 28751152 and Qualcomm internal bug CR563086.
Weakness: CWE-119
Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9874?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Google Android.
How do I fix CVE-2014-9874?
No fix has been published for CVE-2014-9874 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2014-9874 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9874 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Google Android
Sources
Also known as GHSA-crwp-499h-g5p5.