Resource management error in Linux kernel - CVE-2014-1446

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Resource management error in Linux kernel - CVE-2014-1446

Published: January 19, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU42142
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-1446
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

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.


Affected software

Linux kernel
Ubuntu
linux (Ubuntu package)
linux-lts-quantal (Ubuntu package)
linux-lts-raring (Ubuntu package)
linux-lts-saucy (Ubuntu package)

How to mitigate CVE-2014-1446

Install update from vendor's website.

linux (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 2.6.32-57.119, 3.2.0-60.91, 3.5.0-47.71, 3.11.0-17.31
linux-lts-quantal (Ubuntu package) - update to 3.5.0-47.71~precise1
linux-lts-raring (Ubuntu package) - update to 3.8.0-37.53~precise1
linux-lts-saucy (Ubuntu package) - update to 3.11.0-17.31~precise1

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