CVE-2008-7316 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=124d3b7041f9a0ca7c43a6293e1cae4576c32fd5 http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/24/6 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302009 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/124d3b7041f9a0ca7c43a6293e1cae4576c32fd5

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5