CVE-2018-7755 Information

Description

An issue was discovered in the fd_locked_ioctl function in drivers/block/floppy.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7. The floppy driver will copy a kernel pointer to user memory in response to the FDGETPRM ioctl. An attacker can send the FDGETPRM ioctl and use the obtained kernel pointer to discover the location of kernel code and data and bypass kernel security protections such as KASLR.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2029 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2043 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00003.html https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/1116 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3695-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3695-2/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3696-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3696-2/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3697-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3697-2/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3698-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3698-2/ https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4308

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.5