CVE-2014-9779 — arch/arm/mach-msm/qdsp6v2/msm_audio_ion.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5 devices allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted offset, aka Android internal bug 28598347 and Qualcomm internal bug CR548679

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arch/arm/mach-msm/qdsp6v2/msm_audio_ion.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5 devices allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted offset, aka Android internal bug 28598347 and Qualcomm internal bug CR548679

Published Jul 11, 2016

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.57%

Description

arch/arm/mach-msm/qdsp6v2/msm_audio_ion.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-07-05 on Nexus 5 devices allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted offset, aka Android internal bug 28598347 and Qualcomm internal bug CR548679.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.57% 0.00571

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00571

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.57% (0.00571)	45.22th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.57% (0.00571)	42.53th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.12% (0.00124)	29.13th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.09% (0.00089)	39.80th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 26, 2024	0.09% (0.00089)	38.41th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.09% (0.00089)	36.38th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	0.95% (0.00954)	36.37th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 2, 2022	0.95% (0.00954)	34.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	0.95% (0.00954)	32.50th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	0.95% (0.00954)	16.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (3)

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91628
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=0b5f49b360afdebf8ef55df1e48ec141b3629621
x_refsource_CONFIRM

Link	Providers	Tags
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91628		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=0b5f49b360afdebf8ef55df1e48ec141b3629621		x_refsource_CONFIRM

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner google_android

Published Jul 11, 2016

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved May 31, 2016

Link CVE-2014-9779

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2014-9779

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2014-9779