CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-0998

Published: Feb 02, 2015 | Modified: Oct 09, 2018
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Integer signedness error in the vt console driver (formerly Newcons) in FreeBSD 9.3 before p10 and 10.1 before p6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly gain privileges via a negative value in a VT_WAITACTIVE ioctl call, which triggers an array index error and out-of-bounds kernel memory access.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Freebsd Freebsd 10.1 (including) 10.1 (including)

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