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Tracker / CVE-2014-1739

CVE-2014-1739

Low 2.1

The media_device_enum_entities function in drivers/media/media-device.c in the Linux kernel before 3.14.6 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging /dev/media0 read access for a MEDIA_IOC_ENUM_ENTITIES ioctl call.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 3.14.6
suse linux_enterprise_high_availability_extension
suse suse_linux_enterprise_desktop
suse suse_linux_enterprise_server

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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