UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1737

The rawcmdcopyin 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...

PT-2014-1007 · Linux +5 · Linux Kernel +5

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions through 3.14.3 Description: The issue is related to the raw cmd copyin function in drivers/block/floppy.c, which does not properly handle error conditions during processing of an FDRAWCMD ioctl call. This allows local...