Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions Affecting kernel-kdump-devel package, versions <0:2.6.32-431.20.3.el6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-KERNELKDUMPDEVEL-1484046
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed7 May 2014

Introduced: 7 May 2014

CVE-2014-1737  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-754  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:6 kernel-kdump-devel to version 0:2.6.32-431.20.3.el6 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2014:0771.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-kdump-devel package and not the kernel-kdump-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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