drivers/media/media-device.c in the Linux kernel before 3.11, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices, does not properly initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28750150 and Qualcomm internal bug CR570757, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-1739.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9895
Reference (s):
- BID:92222
- URL: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92222
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c88e739b1fad662240e99ecbd0bdaac871717987
- http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-08-01.html
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c88e739b1fad662240e99ecbd0bdaac871717987