CVE-2017-14991

La función sg_ioctl en drivers/scsi/sg.c en el kernel de Linux en versiones anteriores a la 4.13.4 permite que los usuarios locales obtengan información sensible de zonas de la memoria dinámica del kernek no inicializadas mediante una llamada IOCTL SG_GET_REQUEST_TABLE a /dev/sg0.

Anthony Perard discovered that the Xen virtual block driver did not properly initialize some data structures before passing them to user space. A local attacker in a guest VM could use this to expose sensitive information from the host OS or other guest VMs. Bo Zhang discovered that the netlink wireless configuration interface in the Linux kernel did not properly validate attributes when handling certain requests. A local attacker with the CAP_NET_ADMIN could use this to cause a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.