CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-0998
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-02-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189
Description
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 configurations
• freebsd freebsd 10.1
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jan/107 Exploit
- http://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/freebsd-kernel-multiple-vulnerabilities Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534563/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-15:01.vt.asc www.freebsd.org
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jan/107 Exploit
- http://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/freebsd-kernel-multiple-vulnerabilities Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534563/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-15:01.vt.asc www.freebsd.org