CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-1444

Published: Jan 18, 2014 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
1.7 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The fst_get_iface function in drivers/net/wan/farsync.c in the Linux kernel before 3.11.7 does not properly initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for an SIOCWANDEV ioctl call.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux * 3.11.6 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.11 (including) 3.11 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.11.1 (including) 3.11.1 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.11.2 (including) 3.11.2 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.11.3 (including) 3.11.3 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.11.4 (including) 3.11.4 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.11.5 (including) 3.11.5 (including)

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