CVE-2014-9900: Google Android

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ethtool_get_wol function in net/core/ethtool.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices, does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28803952 and Qualcomm internal bug CR570754.

Affected products

• Google Android: up to and including 6.0.1
• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 4.7

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