Security Advisory

CVE-2014-1737

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2014-05-11 21:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 09:50:11

Assigner Chrome

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The raw_cmd_copyin function in drivers/block/floppy.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.3 does not properly handle error conditions during processing of an FDRAWCMD ioctl call, which allows local users to trigger kfree operations and gain privileges by leveraging write access to a /dev/fd device.

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