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Tracker / CVE-2015-5707

CVE-2015-5707

Medium 4.6

Integer overflow in the sg_start_req function in drivers/scsi/sg.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.x through 4.x before 4.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large iov_count value in a write request.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · 2.6.0 → 4.1.0
suse suse_linux_enterprise_desktop
suse suse_linux_enterprise_server

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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