Security Advisory

CVE-2014-4652

1.9

Vulnerability Description

Race condition in the tlv handler functionality in the snd_ctl_elem_user_tlv function in sound/core/control.c in the ALSA control implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.15.2 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging /dev/snd/controlCX access.
Published Date July 3, 2014
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory