CVE-2014-0998

FreeBSD 9.3-10.1 - Denial of Service and Privilege Escalation via VT_WAITACTIVE ioctl

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2014-0998.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This is a detailed technical writeup from Core Security describing multiple vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD kernel, including a sign conversion error in the vt console driver (CVE-2014-0998) and a memory corruption issue in SCTP socket handling (CVE-2014-8612). It includes root cause analysis, code snippets, and disassembly but does not contain functional exploit code.

Description

Integer signedness error in the vt console driver (formerly Newcons) in FreeBSD 9.3 before p10 and 10.1 before p6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly gain privileges via a negative value in a VT_WAITACTIVE ioctl call, which triggers an array index error and out-of-bounds kernel memory access.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WRITEUP
dosfreebsd
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35938

This is a detailed technical writeup from Core Security describing multiple vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD kernel, including a sign conversion error in the vt console driver (CVE-2014-0998) and a memory corruption issue in SCTP socket handling (CVE-2014-8612). It includes root cause analysis, code snippets, and disassembly but does not contain functional exploit code.

Classification
Writeup 100%
Attack Type
Lpe | Dos | Info Leak
Complexity
Moderate
Reliability
Theoretical
Target: FreeBSD Kernel 10.1-RELEASE
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Local access to the system · Ability to execute ioctl or setsockopt system calls
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 19, 2026 Full analysis →

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534563/100/0/threaded
Exploit mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jan/107
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_freebsd
https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-15:01.vt.asc

Scores

EPSS 0.0092
EPSS Percentile 55.7%

Details

CWE
CWE-189
Status published
Products (1)
freebsd/freebsd 10.1
Published Feb 02, 2015
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026