CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-3535
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-08-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-193
Description
Off-by-one error in the iov_iter_advance function in mm/filemap.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27-rc2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a certain sequence of file I/O operations with readv and writev, as demonstrated by testcases/kernel/fs/ftest/ftest03 from the Linux Test Project.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.27)
• linux linux kernel 2.6.27
• debian debian linux 4.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 6.06
• canonical ubuntu linux 7.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 8.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-193 Off-by-one Error weakness
References
- http://mirror.celinuxforum.org/gitstat/commit-detail.php?commit=94ad374a0751f40d25e22e036c37f7263569d24c Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31881 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32190 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32393 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1636 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.27-rc2 Broken Link
- http://www.lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/30/446 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0857.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31132 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-659-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44492 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://mirror.celinuxforum.org/gitstat/commit-detail.php?commit=94ad374a0751f40d25e22e036c37f7263569d24c Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31881 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32190 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32393 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1636 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.27-rc2 Broken Link
- http://www.lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/30/446 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0857.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31132 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-659-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44492 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry