Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-10088  

The sg implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.9 does not properly restrict write operations in situations where the KERNEL_DS option is set, which allows local users to read or write to arbitrary kernel memory locations or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by leveraging access to a /dev/sg device, related to block/bsg.c and drivers/scsi/sg.c. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-9576.

Severity High

Remote No

Type Privilege escalation

Description

The sg implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.9 does not properly restrict write operations in situations where the KERNEL_DS option is set, which allows local users to read or write to arbitrary kernel memory locations or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by leveraging access to a /dev/sg device, related to block/bsg.c and drivers/scsi/sg.c. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-9576.

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AVG-186 linux-zen 4.9.8-1 4.9.11-2 High Fixed

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22 Feb 2017 ASA-201702-18 AVG-186 linux-zen High multiple issues

22 Feb 2017 ASA-201702-17 AVG-178 linux High multiple issues