CVE-2014-1737 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2014-1737?

CVE-2014-1737 is a high-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 11 May 2014. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-754

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-1737?

It affects 8 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel, Oracle Linux, Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus, Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop, Suse Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension and 2 more.

How do I fix CVE-2014-1737?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2014-1737 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-1737 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-1737, GHSA-vmrj-8qgc-5x6c, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1737.