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CVE-2015-5707

Published: 19/10/2015 Updated: 02/06/2020
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 410
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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Vulnerability Summary

Integer overflow in the sg_start_req function in drivers/scsi/sg.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.x up to and including 4.x prior to 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.

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Debian Security Advisories: DSA-3329-1 linux -- security update
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Red Hat: CVE-2015-5707
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 ...

References

CWE-190http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fdc81f45e9f57858da6351836507fbcf1b7583eehttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fdc81f45e9f57858da6351836507fbcf1b7583eehttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/451a2886b6bf90e2fb378f7c46c655450fb96e81http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/01/6https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250030http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=451a2886b6bf90e2fb378f7c46c655450fb96e81http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76145http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00029.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00028.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00032.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00031.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00030.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00026.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00027.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00021.htmlhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2760-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2759-1http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00018.htmlhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2734-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2737-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2733-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2738-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2750-1http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3329http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00004.htmlhttps://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-07-01http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033521https://nvd.nist.govhttps://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-3329https://usn.ubuntu.com/2733-1/https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-5707
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