CVE-2014-0196

La función n_tty_write en drivers/tty/n_tty.c en el kernel de Linux hasta 3.14.3 no maneja debidamente acceso al controlador tty en el caso 'LECHO & !OPOST', lo que permite a usuarios locales causar una denegación de servicio (consumo de memoria y caída de sistema) o ganar privilegios mediante la provocación de una condición de carrera involucrando operaciones de lectura y escritura con cadenas largas.

The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel processed an authenticated COOKIE_ECHO chunk during the initialization of an SCTP connection. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the system by initiating a specially crafted SCTP handshake in order to trigger a NULL pointer dereference on the system. A race condition flaw, leading to heap-based buffer overflows, was found in the way the Linux kernel's N_TTY line discipline implementation handled concurrent processing of echo output and TTY write operations originating from user space when the underlying TTY driver was PTY. An unprivileged, local user could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system.

Linux Kernel contains a race condition vulnerability within the n_tty_write function that allows local users to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) or gain privileges via read and write operations with long strings.