CVE-2017-14991

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CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

EPSS

<1%p35

Published

Oct 4, 2017 (Oct 4, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

The sg_ioctl function in drivers/scsi/sg.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.4 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized kernel heap-memory locations via an SG_GET_REQUEST_TABLE ioctl call for /dev/sg0.

Vendors: linux
Products: linux kernel
Weakness: CWE-200
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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