CVE-2014-9874 — Buffer overflow in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5, 5X, 6P, and 7 (2013) devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, related to arch/arm/mach-msm/qdsp6v2/audio_utils.c and sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/q6asm.c, aka Android internal bug 28751152 and Qualcomm internal bug CR563086

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HIGH

Buffer overflow in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5, 5X, 6P, and 7 (2013) devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, related to arch/arm/mach-msm/qdsp6v2/audio_utils.c and sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/q6asm.c, aka Android internal bug 28751152 and Qualcomm internal bug CR563086

Published Aug 6, 2016

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 0.48%

Description

Buffer overflow in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5, 5X, 6P, and 7 (2013) devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, related to arch/arm/mach-msm/qdsp6v2/audio_utils.c and sound/soc/msm/qdsp6v2/q6asm.c, aka Android internal bug 28751152 and Qualcomm internal bug CR563086.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.48% 0.00481

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

EPSS probability 0.00481

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	0.48% (0.00481)	39.23th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.48% (0.00481)	37.54th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.08% (0.00082)	21.60th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.10% (0.00095)	41.83th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jul 13, 2024	0.10% (0.00095)	40.61th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.10% (0.00095)	38.59th	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-119

Buffer Overflow

References (3)

http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=56ff68b1f93eaf22e5e0284648fd862dc08c9236
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatch

Link	Providers	Tags
http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm/commit/?id=56ff68b1f93eaf22e5e0284648fd862dc08c9236		x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatch

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner google_android

Published Aug 6, 2016

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Jun 24, 2016

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CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

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Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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