VYPR
Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 8, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-7755

CVE-2018-7755

Description

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.

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