Skip to main content

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CVE-2014-9874

High
7.8/10

Summary

Buffer overflow in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5, 5X, 6P, and 7 (2013) devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, related to arch/arm/mach-msm/qdsp6v2/audio_utils.c and sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/q6asm.c, aka Android internal bug 28751152 and Qualcomm internal bug CR563086.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-119 - Buffer Overflow

Buffer overflow attacks involve data transit and operations exceeding the restricted memory buffer, thereby corrupting or overwriting data in adjacent memory locations. Such overflow allows the attacker to run arbitrary code or manipulate the existing code to cause privilege escalation, data breach, denial of service, system crash and even complete system compromise. Given that languages such as C and C++ lack default safeguards against overwriting or accessing data in their memory, applications utilizing these languages are most susceptible to buffer overflows attacks.

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published