CVE-2015-8962

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8962
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2015-8962.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2015-8962
Downstream
DEBIAN (1)
SUSE (7)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
Withdrawn
2026-01-27T04:14:04Z
Published
2016-11-16T05:59:01Z
Modified
2026-01-27T04:14:04Z
Severity
  • 7.3 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Double free vulnerability in the sg_common_write function in drivers/scsi/sg.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) by detaching a device during an SG_IO ioctl call.

References

Affected packages