National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2014-5332
Original release date: 02/06/2015
Last revised: 02/06/2015
Source: US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Race condition in NVMap in NVIDIA Tegra Linux Kernel 3.10 alllows 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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore: 10.0
Exploitability Subscore: 3.4
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type: Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3618
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/01/exploiting-nvmap-to-escape-chrome.html
Vulnerable software and versions
+ Configuration 1
+ OR
* cpe:/o:linux:linux_kernel:3.10
Technical Details
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