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Tracker / CVE-2008-3535

CVE-2008-3535

Medium 4.9

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.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.27

Analysis

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