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Elevation of privilege vulnerability in kernel SCSI driver

CVE-2015-8962

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• CVE numbers: CVE-2015-8962 [Bulletin-CVE-2015-8962]
• Coordinated disclosure?: unknown
• Categories: Elevation of privilege vulnerability in kernel SCSI driver
• Details: 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. [NIST-CVE-2015-8962]
• Discovered by: on: Unknown
• Reported on: 2016-11-01 [Bulletin-CVE-2015-8962]
• Fixed on: 2015-10-30 [Upstream kernel]
• Fix released on: Unknown
• Affected versions: regex:
• Affected devices:
• Affected manufacturers: all [Bulletin-CVE-2015-8962]
• Fixed versions:
• Submission: by: Daniel Carter, on: 2019-07-29