VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2014-1446

CVSS score1.9 LOW
EPSS probability0.65%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2014-01-18
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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.

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