CVE-2012-4542

Publication date

2013-02-28 19:00:00

Family

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.