CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-4656

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2014-07-03 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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-190

Description

Multiple integer overflows in sound/core/control.c in the ALSA control implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.15.2 allow local users to cause a denial of service by leveraging /dev/snd/controlCX access, related to (1) index values in the snd_ctl_add function and (2) numid values in the snd_ctl_remove_numid_conflict function.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 3.15.2) • suse linux enterprise server 10 • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux eus 6.6 • redhat enterprise linux server 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux server aus 6.6 • redhat enterprise linux server tus 6.6 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 6.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness

References