CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-0974
1.9 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-08-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The boot_linux_from_mmc function in app/aboot/aboot.c in the Little Kernel (LK) bootloader, as distributed with Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, does not properly validate a certain address value, which allows attackers to write data to a controllable memory location by leveraging the ability to initiate an attempted boot of an arbitrary image.
Affected configurations
• little kernel project little kernel bootloader
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html source.android.com
- https://www.codeaurora.org/projects/security-advisories/lk-insufficient-verification-tagaddr-when-loading-device-tree-cve-2014-0974 Patch
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html source.android.com
- https://www.codeaurora.org/projects/security-advisories/lk-insufficient-verification-tagaddr-when-loading-device-tree-cve-2014-0974 Patch