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Tracker / CVE-2014-4652

CVE-2014-4652

Low 1.9

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.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 3.15.2
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop
redhat enterprise_linux_server
redhat enterprise_linux_workstation
suse linux_enterprise_server

Analysis

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