CVE-2017-14991 (NVD)

2017-10-03

The sg_ioctl function in drivers/scsi/sg.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.4 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized kernel heap-memory locations via an SG_GET_REQUEST_TABLE ioctl call for /dev/sg0.

Products Linux_kernel
Type Information Exposure (CWE-200)
First patch https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3e0097499839e0fe3af380410eababe5a47c4cf9
Relevant file/s ./drivers/scsi/sg.c (modified, +2, -3)
Links • http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.13.4
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3e0097499839e0fe3af380410eababe5a47c4cf9
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101187
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3754-1/

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