The four mainstream Android phone manufacturers the BootLoader in the presence of multiple flaws vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

University of California, Santa Barbara 9 the researchers found that the four mainstream chip manufacturers of the Android bootloader component the presence of multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities can lead to the phone chain of trust during the boot process is compromised, so that the...

CVE-2014-9798

CVE-2014-9798 concerns the Qualcomm bootloader on Nexus 5 running Android before 2016-07-05. The flaw arises in platform/msm_shared/dev_tree.c where the bootloader does not validate the relationship between tag addresses and aboot addresses, enabling a crafted application to cause a denial-of-ser...