CVE-2016-10088

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 25
Modified
Published: 30 Dec 2016, 18:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 03:07

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
28/100
CVSS Score
7 HIGH
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.07% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

30 Dec 2016, 18:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 03:07
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 6.9AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.07%• Percentile: 23%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-416•Use After Free

    The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Systems

  • linux•linux_kernel

    < 3.10.107 | ≥ 3.11, < 3.12.70 | ≥ 3.13, < 3.16.40 | ≥ 3.17, < 3.18.47 | ≥ 3.19, < 4.1.38 | ≥ 4.2, < 4.4.41 | ≥ 4.5, < 4.8.17 | ≥ 4.9, < 4.9.2

References (9)