Security Advisory

CVE-2015-8830

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-05-02 10:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 08:29:22
Assigner debian
State PUBLISHED

Description

Integer overflow in the aio_setup_single_vector function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel 4.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large AIO iovec. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2012-6701 regression.