CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8962
7.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-11-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-415
Description
Double free vulnerability in the sg_common_write function in drivers/scsi/sg.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) by detaching a device during an SG_IO ioctl call.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 3.2.85)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.3 < 3.10.107)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.12 < 3.12.70)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.13 < 3.16.40)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 3.18.54)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-415 Double Free weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f3951a3709ff50990bf3e188c27d346792103432 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94187 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f3951a3709ff50990bf3e188c27d346792103432 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f3951a3709ff50990bf3e188c27d346792103432 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94187 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f3951a3709ff50990bf3e188c27d346792103432 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2016-11-01.html Third Party Advisory