Tracker / CVE-2012-4542
CVE-2012-4542
Medium 4.6
block/scsi_ioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 3.8 does not properly consider the SCSI device class during authorization of SCSI commands, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via an SG_IO ioctl call that leverages overlapping opcodes.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · … → 3.8.0 |
Analysis
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