CVE-2014-5332

The CVE-2014-5332 entry affects NVIDIA Tegra Linux Kernel 3.10 and its NVMap driver. A race condition in the NVMAP_IOC_CREATE path can trigger a use-after-free in nvmap_handle during concurrent creation/duplication of handles, enabling a local attacker to escalate privileges (e.g., escaping Chrom...

CVE-2014-5332

Race condition in NVMap in NVIDIA Tegra Linux Kernel 3.10 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted NVMAPIOCCREATE IOCTL call, which triggers a use-after-free error, as demonstrated by using a race condition to escape the Chrome sandbox...

Exploiting NVMAP to escape the Chrome sandbox - CVE-2014-5332

Posted by Lee Campbell, Graphics Pwning Unit This guest post continues Project Zero’s practice of promoting excellence in security research on the Project Zero blog Background: Chrome for Android implements a very different sandbox model to that of Chrome for Linux. One of the platform features w...