CVE-2012-4542

Name	CVE-2012-4542
Description	block/scsi_ioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 3.8 does not properly consider the SCSI device class during authorization of SCSI commands, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions via an SG_IO ioctl call that leverages overlapping opcodes.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	buster	4.19.249-2	vulnerable
	buster (security)	4.19.282-1	vulnerable
	bullseye	5.10.178-3	vulnerable
	bullseye (security)	5.10.179-1	vulnerable
	bookworm, sid	6.1.27-1	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
linux	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)	unimportant
linux-2.6	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)	unimportant

[squeeze] - linux-2.6 <no-dsa> (Too intrusive to backport)
No upstream fix seems to be planned/treated as non-issue. Marking as unimportant