High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 11, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026

CVE-2014-9777

Description

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.

Patches

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Vulnerability mechanics

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References

source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
www.securityfocus.com/bid/91628nvd
source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/nvd

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