CVE-2015-8962

Published November 16th, 2016

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CVSS v3

7.3

HIGH

CVSS v2

9.3

HIGH

Affected

PROJECT

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.

torvalds/linux

Linux kernel source tree

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