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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2014-0998 EUVD-2014-1028GHSA-q92p-8v5f-g5x5

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 cau…

Published Feb 2, 2015 · Updated Aug 6, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

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.

Public exploits

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Exploit-DB 1

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