CVE-2014-9986 Memory corruption in Snapdragon Automobile, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wear

High 7.5 Published Updated

An attacker can trigger a memory overread in Qualcomm Snapdragon firmware via unvalidated response length, potentially exposing sensitive data or causing a crash.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2014-9986?

CVE-2014-9986 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Qualcomm Msm8909w Firmware, published on 18 Apr 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Automobile, Snapdragon Mobile, and Snapdragon Wear MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 430, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 617, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 800, SD 808, SD 810, SD 820, and SD 820A, in playready_licacq_process_response(), 'cbResponse' value is controlled by HLOS, and there is no validation on this length. If 'cbResponse' is too large, memory overread occurs.

Weakness: CWE-20, CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9986?

It affects 22 products.

Products include Qualcomm Msm8909w Firmware, Qualcomm Sd 205 Firmware, Qualcomm Sd 210 Firmware, Qualcomm Sd 212 Firmware, Qualcomm Sd 400 Firmware, Qualcomm Sd 410 Firmware and 16 more.

How do I fix CVE-2014-9986?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-9986 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-2014-9986 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9986 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Qualcomm Msm8909w Firmware vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-fggg-x27r-phpv.

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