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Bug 505702 (CVE-2014-1444)

Summary: Kernel: farsync: information leak in ioctl (CVE-2014-1444)
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component: KernelAssignee: Gentoo Kernel Security <security-kernel>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: kernel
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2014-03-25 13:27:44 UTC
CVE-2014-1444 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-1444):

The fst_get_iface function in drivers/net/wan/farsync.c in the Linux kernel before 3.11.7 does not 
properly initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information 
from kernel memory by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for an SIOCWANDEV ioctl call.
Comment 1 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2014-08-10 22:01:29 UTC
CVE-2014-1444 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-1444):
  The fst_get_iface function in drivers/net/wan/farsync.c in the Linux kernel
  before 3.11.7 does not properly initialize a certain data structure, which
  allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by
  leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability for an SIOCWANDEV ioctl call.