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CVE-2014-4652

Date: July 2, 2014

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

2.9

Related Resources (20)

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/60545

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/59777

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/59434

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1113406

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/94412

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2334-1

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1083.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2335-1

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1272.html

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/26/6

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-4652

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-4652

Url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/07f4d9d74a04aa7c72c5dae0ef97565f28f17b92

Url: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=07f4d9d74a04aa7c72c5dae0ef97565f28f17b92

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-4652

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/60564

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4652

Url: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.15.2

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2014-4652

Severity Score

2.9

Weakness Type (CWE)

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

CWE-362

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	2.9
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	1.9
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	NONE
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CVE-2014-4652

Date: July 2, 2014

Language: C

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CVSS v2

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