UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4656

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UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4656

Summary:

Details: 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.

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-4656, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ac902c112d90a89e59916f751c2745f4dbdbb4bd, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/883a1d49f0d77d30012f114b2e19fc141beb3e8e, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1113470, 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=ac902c112d90a89e59916f751c2745f4dbdbb4bd, http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=883a1d49f0d77d30012f114b2e19fc141beb3e8e, 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-2014-4656