CVE-2016-8660

Publication date

2016-10-16 21:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The XFS subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (fdatasync failure and system hang) by using the vfs syscall group in the trinity program, related to a "page lock order bug in the XFS seek hole/data implementation."