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,…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.65% · top 49% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 1.9.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-399 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-399 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (21)

• USN-2135-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2138-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2113-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2141-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2129-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2136-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2128-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• 64954 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• USN-2139-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• FEDORA-2014-1062 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• USN-2134-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.12.8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• MDVSA-2014:038 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• USN-2117-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2133-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• linux-kernel-cve20141446-info-disc(90445) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• FEDORA-2014-1072 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20140115 Re: CVE request: assorted kernel infoleak security fixes (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8e3fbf870481eb53b2d3a322d1fc395ad8b367ed (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8e3fbf870481eb53b2d3a322d1fc395ad8b367ed (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1053620 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 09:42 UTC.