CWE Code: 264
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 7.2
CWE Name:  Permissions Privileges and Access Controls
Summary: the raw_cmd_copyin 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.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): COMPLETE/COMPLETE/COMPLETE
Published Date: 2014-05-11
Last Modified Date: 2017-12-21