Security Advisory

CVE-2007-6716

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-09-04 17:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 16:18:20

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

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.

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