Race condition in Linux kernel before 4.9.3 leads to denial of service through I/O race in XFS file system

Race condition in Linux kernel before 4.9.3 leads to denial of service through I/O race in XFS file system

CVE-2016-10741 · MEDIUM Severity

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

In the Linux kernel before 4.9.3, fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) because there is a race condition between direct and memory-mapped I/O (associated with a hole) that is handled with BUG_ON instead of an I/O failure.

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