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OVP-1960 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2014-1739

Created: Jun 29, 2014 Updated: Mar 11, 2016

Resolved Date: Aug 1, 2014

Found In Version: 5.0.1

Fix Version: 5.0.1.16

Severity: Standard

Applicable for: Wind River Linux 5

Component/s: Kernel

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.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-1739