CVE-2014-9895 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2014-9895?

CVE-2014-9895 is a medium-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

drivers/media/media-device.c in the Linux kernel before 3.11, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices, does not properly initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28750150 and Qualcomm internal bug CR570757, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-1739.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9895?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Google Android, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2014-9895?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2014-9895 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9895 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2023-35674 Android Framework Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2025-48595 Android Framework Integer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2024-32896 Android Pixel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.1

All Google Android vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9895, GHSA-mcwf-f64m-6vhh.