CVE-2014-4656

medium
Published 2014-07-03 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.6

Description

Multiple integer overflows in sound/core/control.c in the ALSA control implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.15.2 allow local users to cause a denial of service by leveraging /dev/snd/controlCX access, related to (1) index values in the snd_ctl_add function and (2) numid values in the snd_ctl_remove_numid_conflict function.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

linux Linux kernel Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Affected 3.15.2
redhat Red Hat Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
6.6 Affected โ€”
6.0 Affected โ€”
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
10 Affected โ€”
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
12.04 Affected โ€”
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 3.14.9-1
sid Fixed 3.14.9-1
forky Fixed 3.14.9-1
bullseye Fixed 3.14.9-1
bookworm Fixed 3.14.9-1

References

CWEs

CWE-190

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.