Impact: Moderate Public Date: 2019-07-26 CWE: CWE-400 Bugzilla: 1734246: CVE-2019-14284 kernel: denial of service in drivers/block/floppy.c by setup_format_params division-by-zero In the Linux kernel before 5.2.3, drivers/block/floppy.c allows a denial of service by setup_format_params division-by-zero. Two consecutive ioctls can trigger the bug: the first one should set the drive geometry with .sect and .rate values that make F_SECT_PER_TRACK be zero. Next, the floppy format operation should be called. It can be triggered by an unprivileged local user even when a floppy disk has not been inserted. NOTE: QEMU creates the floppy device by default.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2019-14284 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 5 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Attack Vector | Local |
| Attack Complexity | Low |
| Privileges Required | Low |
| User Interaction | Required |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | High |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.1 | kernel | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | kernel | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | kernel-rt | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | kernel-alt | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | kernel | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | kernel-rt | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | kernel | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | kernel | Under investigation |
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