CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-14991
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-10-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
The sg_ioctl function in drivers/scsi/sg.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.4 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized kernel heap-memory locations via an SG_GET_REQUEST_TABLE ioctl call for /dev/sg0.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 4.13.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3e0097499839e0fe3af380410eababe5a47c4cf9 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.13.4 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101187 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3e0097499839e0fe3af380410eababe5a47c4cf9 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3754-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3e0097499839e0fe3af380410eababe5a47c4cf9 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.13.4 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101187 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3e0097499839e0fe3af380410eababe5a47c4cf9 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3754-1/ usn.ubuntu.com