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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2014-9893

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

drivers/video/msm/mdss/mdss_mdp_pp.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 devices does not properly determine the size of Gamut LUT data, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28747914 and Qualcomm internal bug CR542223.

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

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published