drivers/mmc/card/mmc_block_test.c in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 devices does not reject kernel-space buffer addresses, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28769208 and Qualcomm internal bug CR547479.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9878
Reference (s):
- BID:92219
- URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92219
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
- https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.10/commit/?id=96a62c1de93a44e6ca69514411baf4b3d67f6dee