CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-1739

2.1 LOW Published 2014-06-23 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-06-23
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-200

Description

The media_device_enum_entities function in drivers/media/media-device.c in the Linux kernel before 3.14.6 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging /dev/media0 read access for a MEDIA_IOC_ENUM_ENTITIES ioctl call.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 3.14.6) • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 13.10 • suse linux enterprise high availability extension 11 • suse suse linux enterprise desktop 11 • suse suse linux enterprise server 11

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness

References