UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4652

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4652

    Published: 3 Jul 2014Last Modified: 26 Aug 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-4652
    Aliases:
    USN-2332-1
    USN-2333-1
    USN-2334-1

    Summary:

    Details: Race condition in the tlv handler functionality in the snd_ctl_elem_user_tlv function in sound/core/control.c in the ALSA control implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.15.2 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging /dev/snd/controlCX access.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-4652, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/07f4d9d74a04aa7c72c5dae0ef97565f28f17b92, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1113406, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/26/6, http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.15.2, http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=07f4d9d74a04aa7c72c5dae0ef97565f28f17b92, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2332-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2333-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2334-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2335-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2336-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2337-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-4652

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.13.0-35.62

    Affected versions

    3.11.0-12.19

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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