Security Advisory

CVE-2012-4542

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-02-28 19:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 20:42:54

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

Description

block/scsi_ioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 3.8 does not properly consider the SCSI device class during authorization of SCSI commands, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via an SG_IO ioctl call that leverages overlapping opcodes.

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