CVE-2015-5707: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the sg_start_req function in drivers/scsi/sg.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.x through 4.x before 4.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large iov_count value in a write request.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: from 2.6.0, before 4.1.0 (fixed in 4.1.0)
• Suse Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: version 11 only
• Suse Suse Linux Enterprise Server: version 11 only

Published 2015-10-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.