CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-9870
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-08-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The Linux kernel before 3.11 on ARM platforms, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices, does not properly consider user-space access to the TPIDRURW register, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28749743 and Qualcomm internal bug CR561044.
Affected configurations
• google android (<= 6.0.1)
• linux linux kernel (<= 3.10.101)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a4780adeefd042482f624f5e0d577bf9cdcbb760 Issue Tracking, Patch
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a4780adeefd042482f624f5e0d577bf9cdcbb760 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=4f57652fcd2dce7741f1ac6dc0417e2f265cd1de Issue Tracking, Patch
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a4780adeefd042482f624f5e0d577bf9cdcbb760 Issue Tracking, Patch
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219 www.securityfocus.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a4780adeefd042482f624f5e0d577bf9cdcbb760 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=4f57652fcd2dce7741f1ac6dc0417e2f265cd1de Issue Tracking, Patch