CVE-2014-8884

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-11-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the ttusbdecfe_dvbs_diseqc_send_master_cmd function in drivers/media/usb/ttusb-dec/ttusbdecfe.c in the Linux kernel before 3.17.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly gain privileges via a large message length in an ioctl call.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.17.3; 3.0-rc1, 3.0-rc2, 3.0-rc3, 3.0-rc4, 3.0-rc5, 3.0-rc6 (+187)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f2e323ec96077642d397bb1c355def536d489d16
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0782.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62305
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3093
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.17.4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/14/7
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1164266
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f2e323ec96077642d397bb1c355def536d489d16
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f2e323ec96077642d397bb1c355def536d489d16
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0290.html

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