CVE-2018-1000204

Linux Kernel version 3.18 to 4.16 incorrectly handles an SGIO ioctl on /dev/sg0 with dxferdirection=SGDXFERFROMDEV and an empty 6-byte cmdp. This may lead to copying up to 1000 kernel heap pages to the userspace. This has been fixed upstream in https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a45b599ad808c3c982fdcdc12b0b8611c2f92824 already. The problem has limited scope, as users don't usually have permissions to access SCSI devices. On the other hand, e.g. the Nero user manual suggests doing chmod o+r+w /dev/sg* to make the devices accessible. NOTE: third parties dispute the relevance of this report, noting that the requirement for an attacker to have both the CAPSYSADMIN and CAPSYS_RAWIO capabilities makes it "virtually impossible to exploit.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-1000204.json"

unresolved_ranges

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    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "3.18"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "4.16"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "14.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "16.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "18.04"
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "8.0"
            }
        ]
    }
]