CVE-2014-4027
The rd_build_device_space function in drivers/target/target_core_rd.c in the Linux kernel before 3.14 does not properly initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from ramdisk_mcp memory by leveraging access to a SCSI initiator.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 2.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-200
- EPSS score
- 0.7% (51th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-3959)
- Published
- June 23, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-3959 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- f5 / big-ip access policy manager
- f5 / big-ip access policy manager
- f5 / big-ip advanced firewall manager
- f5 / big-ip advanced firewall manager
- f5 / big-ip analytics
- f5 / big-ip analytics
- f5 / big-ip application acceleration manager
- f5 / big-ip application acceleration manager
- f5 / big-ip application security manager
- f5 / big-ip application security manager
- f5 / big-ip domain name system
- f5 / big-ip edge gateway
- f5 / big-ip global traffic manager
- f5 / big-ip link controller
- f5 / big-ip link controller
- f5 / big-ip local traffic manager
- f5 / big-ip local traffic manager
- f5 / big-ip policy enforcement manager
- f5 / big-ip policy enforcement manager
- f5 / big-ip protocol security module
- f5 / big-ip wan optimization manager
- f5 / big-ip webaccelerator
- f5 / big-iq application delivery controller
- f5 / big-iq cloud
- f5 / big-iq device
- f5 / big-iq security
- f5 / enterprise manager
- linux / linux kernel
- redhat / enterprise linux
- suse / linux enterprise desktop
- suse / linux enterprise high availability extension
- suse / linux enterprise real time extension
- suse / linux enterprise server
- suse / linux enterprise server
Certified products that may be affected
2 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2 on IBM System z - SUSE Linux Products Gmbh - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0852-2013 - archived
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2 including KVM virtualization - SUSE Linux Products Gmbh - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0787-2013 - archived
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4442dc8a92b8f9ad8ee9e7f8438f4c04c03a22dc
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00006.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-10/msg00007.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi.target.devel/6618(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59134(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59777(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60564(Broken Link)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61310(Broken Link)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/11/1(Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2334-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2335-1(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1108744(Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4442dc8a92b8f9ad8ee9e7f8438f4c04c03a22dc(Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/15000/600/sol15685.html(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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