Resource Management Errors Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,3.12.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (33rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004575
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed18 Jan 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Jan 2014

CVE-2014-1446  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 3.12.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. The yam_ioctl function in drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12.8 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for an SIOCYAMGCFG ioctl call.

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CVSS Base Scores

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