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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-03-08T07:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T06:37:58.053Z

Reserved: 2018-03-08T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2018-7755

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-03-08T07:29:01.330

Modified: 2018-10-04T10:29:16.687

Link: CVE-2018-7755

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2018-03-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-7755 - Bugzilla