CVE-2014-9885 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2014-9885?

CVE-2014-9885 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

Format string vulnerability in drivers/thermal/qpnp-adc-tm.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that provides format string specifiers in a name, aka Android internal bug 28769959 and Qualcomm internal bug CR562261.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9885?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2014-9885?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-9885 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-2014-9885 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9885 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-96cx-9c9c-rjcv.