Vulnerability in Freebsd

CVE-2014-0998

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.

EPSS: 0.009 (56.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Freebsd — versions 10.1
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-189

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_FULLDISC)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_FREEBSD, vendor-advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)