CVE-2014-4652
LOW severity · CVSS 1.9 · CWE-362
1.9CVSS LOW
Summary
Race condition in the tlv handler functionality in the snd_ctl_elem_user_tlv function in sound/core/control.c in the ALSA control implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.15.2 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging /dev/snd/controlCX access.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=07f4d9d74a04aa7c72c5dae0ef97565f28f17b92
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1083.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1272.htmlAdvisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59434Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59777Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60545Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60564Advisory