CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-6716
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-09-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Description
fs/direct-io.c in the dio subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.23 does not properly zero out the dio struct, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS), as demonstrated by a certain fio test.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.23)
• canonical ubuntu linux 6.06
• canonical ubuntu linux 7.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 8.04
• debian debian linux 4.0
• novell linux desktop 9
• opensuse opensuse 10.3
• suse suse linux enterprise desktop 10
• suse suse linux enterprise server 10
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=848c4dd5153c7a0de55470ce99a8e13a63b4703f git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/30/448 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0972.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32023 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32103 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32237 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32356 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32370 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32393 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32759 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32799 Broken Link
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1653 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.23 Broken Link
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:220 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/04/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0885.html Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31515 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-659-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461082 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10053 Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=848c4dd5153c7a0de55470ce99a8e13a63b4703f git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/30/448 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0972.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32023 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32103 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32237 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32356 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32370 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32393 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32759 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32799 Broken Link
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1653 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.23 Broken Link
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:220 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/04/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0885.html Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31515 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-659-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461082 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10053 Third Party Advisory