CVE-2014-9914 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2014-9914?

CVE-2014-9914 is a high-severity vulnerability in Google Android, published on 7 Feb 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Race condition in the ip4_datagram_release_cb function in net/ipv4/datagram.c in the Linux kernel before 3.15.2 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by leveraging incorrect expectations about locking during multithreaded access to internal data structures for IPv4 UDP sockets.

Weakness: CWE-416, CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9914?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Google Android, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2014-9914?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2014-9914 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9914 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-2014-9914, GHSA-63m2-xjhc-qq8p, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9914.