CVE-2014-9789: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The (1) alloc and (2) free APIs in arch/arm/mach-msm/qdsp6v2/msm_audio_ion.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5 devices do not validate parameters, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28749392 and Qualcomm internal bug CR556425.

Affected products

• Google Android: up to and including 6.0.1

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