CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-5707

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2015-10-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-10-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-190

Description

Integer overflow in the sg_start_req function in drivers/scsi/sg.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.x through 4.x before 4.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large iov_count value in a write request.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.0 < 4.1.0) • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 15.04 • debian debian linux 7.0 • debian debian linux 8.0 • suse suse linux enterprise desktop 11 • suse suse linux enterprise server 11

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness

References