CVE-2008-7316

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.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/124d3b7041f9a0ca7c43a6293e1cae4576c32fd5

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302009

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/24/6

http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=124d3b7041f9a0ca7c43a6293e1cae4576c32fd5

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS