Security Advisory

CVE-2014-1446

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2014-01-18 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 09:42:35
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.