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CVE-2014-4652

Kernel: ALSA: control: protect user controls against races & memory disclosure

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

1.5

CVSS 2.0

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Published · June 18, 2014

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

An information leak flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) implementation handled access of the user control's state. A local, privileged user could use this flaw to leak kernel memory to user space.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 1.5
AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

CWE not specified