Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-5707

Title: Canonical Ubuntu Linux Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-5707.

CWE Category CWE-190
Published Date Oct 19, 2015
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.6 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.09%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-5707: Integer overflow in the sg_start_req function in drivers/scsi/sg.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.x through 4.x before 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.

Impacted Vendors

L
linux 1
D
debian 1
U
ubuntu 2
C
canonical 1
N
novell 2
S
suse 2

Reference Links

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=451a2886b6bf90e2fb378f7c46c655450fb96e81 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fdc81f45e9f57858da6351836507fbcf1b7583ee http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00018.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00021.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00026.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00027.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00028.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00029.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00030.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00031.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00032.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3329 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/01/6 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76145 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033521 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2733-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2734-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2737-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2738-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2750-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2759-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2760-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250030 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/451a2886b6bf90e2fb378f7c46c655450fb96e81 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fdc81f45e9f57858da6351836507fbcf1b7583ee https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-07-01 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=451a2886b6bf90e2fb378f7c46c655450fb96e81 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fdc81f45e9f57858da6351836507fbcf1b7583ee http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00018.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00021.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00026.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00027.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00028.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00029.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00030.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00031.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00032.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3329 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/01/6 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76145 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033521 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2733-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2734-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2737-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2738-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2750-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2759-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2760-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250030 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/451a2886b6bf90e2fb378f7c46c655450fb96e81 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fdc81f45e9f57858da6351836507fbcf1b7583ee https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-07-01
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.6
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-5707 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.