CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-4653
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-07-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
sound/core/control.c in the ALSA control implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.15.2 does not ensure possession of a read/write lock, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging /dev/snd/controlCX access.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 3.15.2)
• suse linux enterprise server 10
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fd9f26e4eca5d08a27d12c0933fceef76ed9663d git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1083.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59434 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59777 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60545 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60564 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.15.2 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/26/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68164 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2334-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2335-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1113409 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fd9f26e4eca5d08a27d12c0933fceef76ed9663d Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fd9f26e4eca5d08a27d12c0933fceef76ed9663d git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1083.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59434 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59777 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60545 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60564 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.15.2 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/26/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68164 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2334-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2335-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1113409 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fd9f26e4eca5d08a27d12c0933fceef76ed9663d Patch, Third Party Advisory