Heap-based buffer overflow in drivers/media/platform/msm/camera_v2/sensor/actuator/msm_actuator.c in the Qualcomm components in Android bef…

published 2016-07-11 10y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2014-9591

cvss: 7.8; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.6%; EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 49%
public exploits: 0; none known

Heap-based buffer overflow in drivers/media/platform/msm/camera_v2/sensor/actuator/msm_actuator.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28557260 and Qualcomm internal bug CR545979.

Patch / fix

links 1

source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=2fb303d9c6ca080f253b10e… commit

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Exploit prediction

0.61% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 49% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	7.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	9.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness

CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2014-9786
NVD CVE-2014-9786

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