CVE-2015-8962

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.

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f3951a3709ff50990bf3e188c27d346792103432

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f3951a3709ff50990bf3e188c27d346792103432

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3