SUSE 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...

The vulnerability of the Linux operating system, which allows a malicious individual to increase their privileges

The function rawcmdcopyin in the file drivers/block/floppy.c incorrectly handles the system call FDRAWCMD, allowing users to increase their privileges...

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...