CVE-2014-1446 REJECTED

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.

EPSS 0.15% · 36.0th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
0.15%
36.0th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSlinux0
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSlinux3.11.0-12.19, 3.12.0-1.3, 3.12.0-2.5
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSlinux-aws0
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSlinux-lts-utopic0
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSlinux-gke0
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSlinux-aws0
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSlinux-raspi20
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSlinux-lts-wily0
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSlinux-lts-xenial0
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSlinux-hwe0
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSlinux-lts-vivid0
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSlinux-snapdragon0

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