vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-14991: linux -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Oct 4, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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