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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Google Android. Affected is an unknown function of the component PlayReady DRM. Performing a manipulation results in memory corruption. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2014-9977. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to install a patch to address this issue.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Google Android (Smartphone Operating System) (version now known). This affects some unknown processing of the component PlayReady DRM. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, a buffer overflow vulnerability exists in PlayReady DRM.

The bug was discovered 07/01/2017. The weakness was shared 08/18/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared at source.android.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2014-9977 since 05/30/2017. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/08/2019). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 48 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 99467†). The entries VDB-101214, VDB-103224, VDB-103225 and VDB-103226 are related to this item. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Smartphone Operating System

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• Google

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• Android

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• free

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• Vendor: https://www.google.com/

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