CVE-2008-3535

CVE-2008-3535 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Off-by-one error in the iov_iter_advance function in mm/filemap.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27-rc2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a certain sequence of file I/O operations with readv and writev, as demonstrated by testcases/kernel/fs/ftest/ftest03 from the Linux Test Project.

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