CVE-2014-9778: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The vid_dec_set_h264_mv_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 28598515 and Qualcomm internal bug CR563694.

Affected products

• Google Android: up to and including 6.0.1

Published 2016-07-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.