CVE-2016-10088

high

Published 2016-12-30 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

7.0

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.0

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

69%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
arch		fixed	`4.4.41-1`
debian	bookworm	fixed	`4.8.15-2`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4.8.15-2`
debian	forky	fixed	`4.8.15-2`
debian	sid	fixed	`4.8.15-2`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4.8.15-2`
linux-kernel		affected	`3.10.107`

References

CWEs

CWE-416

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.