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Tracker / CVE-2014-4656

CVE-2014-4656

Medium 4.6

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.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 3.15.2
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop
redhat enterprise_linux_eus
redhat enterprise_linux_server
redhat enterprise_linux_server_aus
redhat enterprise_linux_server_tus
redhat enterprise_linux_workstation
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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