CVE-2014-9888

Published August 6th, 2016

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CVSS v3

N/A

CVSS v2

7.2

HIGH

Affected

PROJECT

Description

arch/arm/mm/dma-mapping.c in the Linux kernel before 3.13 on ARM platforms, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices, does not prevent executable DMA mappings, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28803642 and Qualcomm internal bug CR642735.

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