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CVE-2015-8962

kernel: Double free vulnerability in SCSI driver

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7

CVSS 3.0

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Published · November 3, 2015

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel SCSI subsystem, which allowed a local user to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) by issuing an SG_IO ioctl call while a device was being detached.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 7
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.0 · 6.2
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWE-416 · Use After Free