CVE-2020-12770

A vulnerability was found in sg_write in drivers/scsi/sg.c in the SCSI generic (sg) driver subsystem. This flaw allows an attacker with local access and special user or root privileges to cause a denial of service if the allocated list is not cleaned with an invalid (Sg_fd * sfp) pointer at the time of failure, also possibly causing a kernel internal information leak problem.

Mitigation

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.