An integer-overflow vulnerability was found in the scsi block-request handling code in function start_req(). A local attacker could use specially crafted IOV requests to overflow a counter used in bio_map_user_iov()'s page calculation, and write past the end of the array that contains kernel-page pointers.
Find out more about CVE-2015-5707 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue affects the Linux kernels as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 MRG-2 and realtime kernels and does not plan be addressed in a future update.
NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
| Base Score | 4.6 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Access Vector | Local |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
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| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 | realtime-kernel | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | kernel-rt | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | kernel | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | kernel | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | kernel | Not affected |
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