The mdss mdp3 driver in the Qualcomm components in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 devices does not validate user-space data, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28769221 and Qualcomm internal bug CR524490.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9879
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/commit/?id=ecc8116e1befb3a764109f47ba0389434ddabbe4