UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10088

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2016-10088

    Published: 30 Dec 2016Last Modified: 26 Aug 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-10088
    Aliases:
    USN-3208-1
    USN-3208-2
    USN-3209-1

    Summary:

    Details: The sg implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.9 does not properly restrict write operations in situations where the KERNEL_DS option is set, which allows local users to read or write to arbitrary kernel memory locations or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) by leveraging access to a /dev/sg device, related to block/bsg.c and drivers/scsi/sg.c. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-9576.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10088, http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=128394eff343fc6d2f32172f03e24829539c5835, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/30/1, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/128394eff343fc6d2f32172f03e24829539c5835, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3208-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3208-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3209-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3360-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3360-2, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10088

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.13.0-125.174

    Affected versions

    3.11.0-12.19

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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