CVE-2014-1446

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
18/01/2014
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

The yam_ioctl function in drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12.8 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for an SIOCYAMGCFG ioctl call.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.12.7 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.12.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.12.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.12.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.12.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*


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