CVE-2014-9870

Published August 6th, 2016

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CVSS v3

N/A

CVSS v2

9.3

HIGH

Affected

PROJECT

Description

The Linux kernel before 3.11 on ARM platforms, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices, does not properly consider user-space access to the TPIDRURW register, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28749743 and Qualcomm internal bug CR561044.

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