CVE-2014-1444

Severity

17%

Complexity

31%

Confidentiality

48%

The fst_get_iface function in drivers/net/wan/farsync.c in the Linux kernel before 3.11.7 does not properly initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for an SIOCWANDEV ioctl call.

The fst_get_iface function in drivers/net/wan/farsync.c in the Linux kernel before 3.11.7 does not properly initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for an SIOCWANDEV ioctl call.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 1.7. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2014-01-18 22:55:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-29 01:34:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel 3.11

3.11

Linux Kernel 3.11.1

3.11.1

Linux Kernel 3.11.2

3.11.2

Linux Kernel 3.11.3

3.11.3

Linux Kernel 3.11.4

3.11.4

Linux Kernel 3.11.5

3.11.5

Linux Kernel

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=96b340406724d87e4621284ebac5e059d67b2194

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.11.7

[oss-security] 20140115 Re: CVE request: assorted kernel infoleak security fixes

Patch

64952

USN-2128-1

USN-2129-1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1053610

linux-kernel-cve20141444-info-disc(90443)

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/96b340406724d87e4621284ebac5e059d67b2194

Patch

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