CVE - CVE-2014-1739

CVE-ID
CVE-2014-1739	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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MLIST:[oss-security] 20140615 CVE-2014-1739: Kernel Infoleak vulnerability in,media_enum_entities() URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/15/1 MISC:http://speirofr.appspot.com/cve-2014-1739-kernel-infoleak-vulnerability-in-media_enum_entities.html CONFIRM:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e6a623460e5fc960ac3ee9f946d3106233fd28d8 CONFIRM:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.14.6 CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1109774 CONFIRM:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e6a623460e5fc960ac3ee9f946d3106233fd28d8 CONFIRM:https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01 SUSE:SUSE-SU-2014:1316 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00006.html SUSE:SUSE-SU-2014:1319 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00007.html UBUNTU:USN-2259-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2259-1 UBUNTU:USN-2261-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2261-1 UBUNTU:USN-2263-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2263-1 UBUNTU:USN-2264-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2264-1 BID:68048 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68048 SECTRACK:1038201 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038201 SECUNIA:59597 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/59597
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Date Entry Created
20140129	Disclaimer: The entry creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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Assigned (20140129)
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