A vulnerability was found in Google Android on Nexus 5/Nexus 7 2013 (Smartphone Operating System) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function vid_dec_set_meta_buffers of the file drivers/video/msm/vidc/common/dec/vdec.c. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The vid_dec_set_meta_buffers function in drivers/video/msm/vidc/common/dec/vdec.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices does not validate the number of buffers, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28598501 and Qualcomm internal bug CR563654.

The weakness was presented 07/06/2016 as Android Security Bulletin - July 2016 as confirmed security bulletin (Website). The advisory is available at source.android.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2014-9777 since 05/31/2016. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The requirement for exploitation is a simple authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/01/2022). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.

Upgrading to version 2016-07-05 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 91628†).

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Type

• Smartphone Operating System

Vendor

• Google

Name

• Android

Version

• 0.c
• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.c
• 2.0
• 2.0.1
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.2.1
• 2.2.2
• 2.2.3
• 2.3
• 2.3.1
• 2.3.2
• 2.3.3
• 2.3.4
• 2.3.5
• 2.3.6
• 2.3.7
• 2.37
• 2.c
• 2.java
• 3.0
• 3.1
• 3.2
• 3.2.1
• 3.2.2
• 3.2.3
• 3.2.4
• 3.2.5
• 3.2.6
• 3.8
• 3.10
• 3.15-rc5-next-20140519
• 3.18
• 4.0
• 4.0.1
• 4.0.2
• 4.0.3
• 4.0.4
• 4.1
• 4.1.1
• 4.1.2
• 4.2
• 4.2.1
• 4.2.2
• 4.3
• 4.3.1
• 4.4
• 4.4.1
• 4.4.1_r1
• 4.4.2
• 4.4.3
• 4.4.4
• 4.9
• 4.14 LTS
• 4.cpp
• 5
• 5.0
• 5.0.1
• 5.0.2
• 5.1
• 5.1.0
• 5.1.1
• 5.1.1 LMY48X
• 5.1.1 LMY48Z
• 5.1.1 LMY49F
• 5.2
• 6
• 6.0
• 6.0 2015-10-01
• 6.0 2015-10-01
• 6.0 2015-11-01
• 6.0 2015-12-01
• 6.0 2015-1201
• 6.0 2016-01-01
• 6.0 2016-06-01
• 6.0 2016-07-01
• 6.0 Security Patch Level 11-01-2015
• 6.0.1
• 6.1
• 6.cpp
• 6.x 2016-06-01
• 6.x 2016-07-01
• 6.x 2016-07-05
• 7.0
• 7.1
• 7.1.1
• 7.1.2
• 8
• 8.0
• 8.1
• 9
• 9.0
• 10
• 10.0
• 11
• 11.0
• 12
• 12.0
• 12L
• 13
• 13.0
• 14
• 18.0.1
• 101.c
• 1012
• 2013-01-16
• 2013-07-07
• 2016-06-01

License

• free

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