LocationService Exposed Vulnerability in Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear Devices

CVE-2014-10062 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

In Android before 2018-04-05 or earlier security patch level on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9640, MDM9650, MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 400, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 430, SD 450, SD 600, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 617, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 800, SD 808, SD 810, SD 820, SD 835, and SDX20, LocationService is being exported, which is a way for a service to expose its methods to other services. This makes it possible for any other services to import LocationService and call into the exposed method for bringing up a data connection.

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