CVE-2014-4652 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=07f4d9d74a04aa7c72c5dae0ef97565f28f17b92 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1083.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1272.html http://secunia.com/advisories/59434 http://secunia.com/advisories/59777 http://secunia.com/advisories/60545 http://secunia.com/advisories/60564 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.15.2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/26/6 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2334-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2335-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1113406 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/94412 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/07f4d9d74a04aa7c72c5dae0ef97565f28f17b92