← back
CVE-2014-9870

CVE-2014-9870

EPSS 1.0%
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 products
n/a · n/a

Want to know if your infrastructure is exposed to this?

Talk to TrueHacking →
References
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a4780adeefd042482f624f5e0d577bf9cdcbb760https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a4780adeefd042482f624f5e0d577bf9cdcbb760http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.htmlhttps://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=4f57652fcd2dce7741f1ac6dc0417e2f265cd1dehttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219