CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-7822

7.2 HIGH Published 2015-03-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-03-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

The implementation of certain splice_write file operations in the Linux kernel before 3.16 does not enforce a restriction on the maximum size of a single file, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted splice system call, as demonstrated by use of a file descriptor associated with an ext4 filesystem.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 3.15.8)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References