An issue was discovered in the fd_locked_ioctl function in drivers/block/floppy.c in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7. The floppy driver will copy a kernel pointer to user memory in response to the FDGETPRM ioctl. An attacker can send the FDGETPRM ioctl and use the obtained kernel pointer to discover the location of kernel code and data and bypass kernel security protections such as KASLR. References: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/1116 https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=152046737321740&w=2
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1553217]
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2019:2029 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2029
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2019:2043 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2043