CVE-2014-9971: Google Android

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, disabling asserts causes an instruction inside of an assert to not be executed resulting in incorrect control flow.

Affected products

• Google Android: any version

Published 2017-08-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.