CVE-2014-8884: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Linux Kernel: up to and including 3.17.3; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; …

Published 2014-11-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.