Vulnerability CVE-2014-1739
Published: 2014-06-23

Description:
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.

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Topic
Author
Date
Low
Linux Kernel 3.15-rc3 media_enum_entities() Infoleak vulnerability
Salva Peiro
15.06.2014

Type:

CWE-200

 (Information Exposure)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
1.7/10
2.9/10
3.1/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Linux -> Linux kernel 

 References:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e6a623460e5fc960ac3ee9f946d3106233fd28d8
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00007.html
http://speirofr.appspot.com/cve-2014-1739-kernel-infoleak-vulnerability-in-media_enum_entities.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.14.6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/15/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68048
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038201
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2259-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2261-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2263-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2264-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1109774
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e6a623460e5fc960ac3ee9f946d3106233fd28d8
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01
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