CVE-2014-9878: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

drivers/mmc/card/mmc_block_test.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 devices does not reject kernel-space buffer addresses, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28769208 and Qualcomm internal bug CR547479.

Affected products

• Google Android: up to and including 6.0.1

Published 2016-08-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.