CVE-2019-14284

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
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Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`5.2.6-1`
sid	Fixed	`5.2.6-1`
forky	Fixed	`5.2.6-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`5.2.6-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`5.2.6-1`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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