CVE-2007-6716

medium

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.

References

Advisories
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https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10053

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461082

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-659-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31515

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/04/1

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1653

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0972.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00000.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00008.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00007.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00000.html

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2007-6680

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0885.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:220

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.23

http://secunia.com/advisories/32799

http://secunia.com/advisories/32759

http://secunia.com/advisories/32393

http://secunia.com/advisories/32370

http://secunia.com/advisories/32356

http://secunia.com/advisories/32237

http://secunia.com/advisories/32103

http://secunia.com/advisories/32023

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/30/448

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=848c4dd5153c7a0de55470ce99a8e13a63b4703f

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-09-04

Updated: 2026-04-23

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H