| Name | CVE-2014-0998 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 779194 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| kfreebsd-10 (PTS) | jessie | 10.1~svn274115-4 | fixed |
| stretch | 10.3~svn300087-3 | fixed |
| buster | 10.3~svn300087-5 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| kfreebsd-10 | source | (unstable) | 10.1~svn274115-3 | | | 779194 |
| kfreebsd-11 | unknown | experimental | 11.0~svn284956-1 | | | |
| kfreebsd-8 | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
| kfreebsd-9 | source | (unstable) | (not affected) | | | |
Notes
- kfreebsd-9 <not-affected> (don't have newcons)
- kfreebsd-8 <not-affected> (don't have newcons)
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-15:02.kmem.asc