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Tracker / CVE-2015-8962

CVE-2015-8962

High 7.3

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 products and versions

linux linux_kernel · … → 3.2.85
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
linux linux_kernel · 3.3 → 3.10.107

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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