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OVP-1966 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2014-4027

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 rd_build_device_space function in drivers/target/target_core_rd.c in the Linux kernel before 3.14 does not properly initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from ramdisk_mcp memory by leveraging access to a SCSI initiator.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-4027
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