FKIE_CVE-2014-0974

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-08-25 01:55 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:03
Severity
Summary
The boot_linux_from_mmc function in app/aboot/aboot.c in the Little Kernel (LK) bootloader, as distributed with Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, does not properly validate a certain address value, which allows attackers to write data to a controllable memory location by leveraging the ability to initiate an attempted boot of an arbitrary image.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.codeaurora.org/projects/security-advisories/lk-insufficient-verification-tagaddr-when-loading-device-tree-cve-2014-0974Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-07-01.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.codeaurora.org/projects/security-advisories/lk-insufficient-verification-tagaddr-when-loading-device-tree-cve-2014-0974Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
little_kernel_project little_kernel_bootloader -
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