CVE-2015-4036

kernel: potential memory corruption (denial of service) in vhost/scsi driver

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.9

CVSS 2.0

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Published · February 5, 2015

Updated · March 27, 2026

Description

A flaw exists in the kernels configfs interface to manipulate or control the vhost scsi subsection. Unchecked directory names in configfs may unintentionally corrupt memory or panic the system.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7, and Red Hat Enterprise MRG as they do not have CONFIG_VHOST_SCSI directive enabled in the build configuration.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.9
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CWE-119 · Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer