CVE-2018-9416

Summary

CVE-2018-9416 is a memory corruption vulnerability identified in the "sg_remove_scat" function of the "scsi/sg.c" file. This issue, which does not require user interaction, can be exploited to escalate local privileges, ultimately granting System execution privileges. This unusual root cause may lead to serious security consequences.

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