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…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.1% · top 34% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-200 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-200 and its CVEs

Affected products

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  • affected n/a

References (16)

• USN-2263-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1109774 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2014:1316 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20140615 CVE-2014-1739: Kernel Infoleak vulnerability in,media_enum_entities() (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-2261-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• USN-2264-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• 68048 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2014:1319 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e6a623460e5fc960ac3ee9f946d3106233fd28d8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.14.6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-2259-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/e6a623460e5fc960ac3ee9f946d3106233fd28d8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://speirofr.appspot.com/cve-2014-1739-kernel-infoleak-vulnerability-in-media_enum_entities.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 59597 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 1038201 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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, 09:50 UTC.