Security Advisory

CVE-2008-7316

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-05-02 10:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 12:03:36
Assigner debian
State PUBLISHED

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.