CVE-2014-9890 Integer overflow in n/a

High 7.8 Published Updated

A local attacker can escalate privileges on Android devices by exploiting an off-by-one error in the camera sensor driver via a crafted application.

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-2014-9890?

CVE-2014-9890 is a high-severity 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

Off-by-one error in drivers/media/platform/msm/camera_v2/sensor/cci/msm_cci.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application that sends an I2C command, aka Android internal bug 28770207 and Qualcomm internal bug CR529177.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9890?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2014-9890?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-9890 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2014-9890 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9890 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Google Android vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-p924-xfmv-pc2h.

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