CVE-2014-9902 — Buffer overflow in CORE/SYS/legacy/src/utils/src/dot11f.c in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 7 (2013) devices allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Information Element (IE) in an 802.11 management frame, aka Android internal bug 28668638 and Qualcomm internal bugs CR553937 and CR553941

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CRITICAL

Buffer overflow in CORE/SYS/legacy/src/utils/src/dot11f.c in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 7 (2013) devices allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Information Element (IE) in an 802.11 management frame, aka Android internal bug 28668638 and Qualcomm internal bugs CR553937 and CR553941

Published Aug 5, 2016

9.8

CRITICAL

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 2.52%

Description

Buffer overflow in CORE/SYS/legacy/src/utils/src/dot11f.c in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 7 (2013) devices allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Information Element (IE) in an 802.11 management frame, aka Android internal bug 28668638 and Qualcomm internal bugs CR553937 and CR553941.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

2.52% 0.02520

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

EPSS probability 0.02520

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 (9 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	2.52% (0.02520)	84.28th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	2.52% (0.02520)	82.73th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	4.15% (0.04145)	87.89th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.55% (0.00554)	78.32th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.54% (0.00541)	76.61th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.54% (0.00541)	73.78th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	5.79% (0.05785)	90.41th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	5.79% (0.05785)	89.45th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	5.79% (0.05785)	77.27th	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/92223
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/prima/commit/?id=3b1c44a3a7129dc25abe2c23543f6f66c59e8f50
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/92223		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/platform/vendor/qcom-opensource/wlan/prima/commit/?id=3b1c44a3a7129dc25abe2c23543f6f66c59e8f50		x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatch

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner google_android

Published Aug 5, 2016

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Jun 24, 2016

Link CVE-2014-9902

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2014-9902

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2014-9902