CVE-2014-5332 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2014-5332?

CVE-2014-5332 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 6 Feb 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Race condition in NVMap in NVIDIA Tegra Linux Kernel 3.10 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted NVMAP_IOC_CREATE IOCTL call, which triggers a use-after-free error, as demonstrated by using a race condition to escape the Chrome sandbox.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-5332?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2014-5332?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-5332 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2014-5332 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-5332 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-cwcx-f6p9-rr2m.