CVE-2014-8181 describes a vulnerability in the kernel of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and MRG-2, where the SG_IO buffer fails to clear garbage data, potentially leading to the leakage of sensitive information to user space. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) has a local attack vector with low complexity, allowing an authenticated attacker to achieve high confidentiality impact without requiring user interaction. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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