VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-9971

critical
Published 2017-08-18 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
9.8

Description

In all Qualcomm products with Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, disabling asserts causes an instruction inside of an assert to not be executed resulting in incorrect control flow.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: product-security@qualcomm.com — https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-07-01

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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