Tracker / CVE-2007-6716
CVE-2007-6716
Medium 5.5
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.
Affected products and versions
| canonical | ubuntu_linux |
|---|---|
| debian | debian_linux |
| linux | linux_kernel · … → 2.6.23 |
| novell | linux_desktop |
| opensuse | opensuse |
| suse | suse_linux_enterprise_desktop |
| suse | suse_linux_enterprise_server |
Analysis
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