CVE-2014-1739 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2014-1739?

CVE-2014-1739 is a low-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 23 Jun 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The media_device_enum_entities function in drivers/media/media-device.c in the Linux kernel before 3.14.6 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by leveraging /dev/media0 read access for a MEDIA_IOC_ENUM_ENTITIES ioctl call.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-1739?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Linux kernel, Suse Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, Suse Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop, Suse Suse Linux Enterprise Server.

How do I fix CVE-2014-1739?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2014-1739 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2014-1739 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-1739, GHSA-pqjc-5x4q-33rx, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1739.