Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,3.11)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006519
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 Aug 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Aug 2016

CVE-2014-9895  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 3.11 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure drivers/media/media-device.c in the Linux kernel before 3.11, as used in Android before 2016-08-05 on Nexus 5 and 7 (2013) devices, does not properly initialize certain data structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information via a crafted application, aka Android internal bug 28750150 and Qualcomm internal bug CR570757, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-1739.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1