VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-9931

high
Published 2017-05-16 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
9.3
VIR risk
7.8

Description

A buffer overflow vulnerability in all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel can potentially occur if an OEM performs an app region size customization due to a hard-coded value.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@android.com — https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.