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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2014-4656

CVE-2014-4656

Published:July 03, 2014

Updated:May 17, 2026

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.

Related Resources (21)

http://secunia.com/advisories/60545

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2334-1

http://secunia.com/advisories/59777

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ac902c112d90a89e59916f751c2745f4dbdbb4bd

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2335-1

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-4656

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ac902c112d90a89e59916f751c2745f4dbdbb4bd

http://secunia.com/advisories/59434

http://secunia.com/advisories/60564

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0087.html

https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01