CVE-2014-9903

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-06-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The sched_read_attr function in kernel/sched/core.c in the Linux kernel 3.14-rc before 3.14-rc4 uses an incorrect size, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted sched_getattr system call.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 3.14-rc1, 3.14-rc2, 3.14-rc3

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4efbc454ba68def5ef285b26ebfcfdb605b52755
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91511
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4efbc454ba68def5ef285b26ebfcfdb605b52755
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4efbc454ba68def5ef285b26ebfcfdb605b52755
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91511
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4efbc454ba68def5ef285b26ebfcfdb605b52755

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