CVE-2008-5700

CVE-2008-5700 · LOW Severity

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

libata in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27.9 does not set minimum timeouts for SG_IO requests, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (Programmed I/O mode on drives) via multiple simultaneous invocations of an unspecified test program.

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