CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-7316
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-05-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
mm/filemap.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.25 allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a writev system call that triggers an iovec of zero length, followed by a page fault for an iovec of nonzero length.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.24)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=124d3b7041f9a0ca7c43a6293e1cae4576c32fd5 Vendor Advisory
- http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25 mirror.linux.org.au
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/24/6 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302009 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/124d3b7041f9a0ca7c43a6293e1cae4576c32fd5 Vendor Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=124d3b7041f9a0ca7c43a6293e1cae4576c32fd5 Vendor Advisory
- http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25 mirror.linux.org.au
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/24/6 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302009 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/124d3b7041f9a0ca7c43a6293e1cae4576c32fd5 Vendor Advisory