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UBUNTU-CVE-2014-0972

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2014-08-01 11:13 – Updated: 2025-01-13 10:21 – Source website

Withdrawn 2025-06-23

Details

The kgsl graphics driver for the Linux kernel 3.x, as used in Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) Android contributions for MSM devices and other products, does not properly prevent write access to IOMMU context registers, which allows local users to select a custom page table, and consequently write to arbitrary memory locations, by using a crafted GPU command stream to modify the contents of a certain register.

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-0972	REPORT
	https://www.codeaurora.org/projects/security-advi…	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-0972	REPORT

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CVE-2014-0972 (GCVE-0-2014-0972)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-08-01 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 09:34

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2319 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://www.codeaurora.org/projects/security-advi…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Date Public

2014-07-23 00:00

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