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Tracker / CVE-2015-8785

CVE-2015-8785

Medium 6.2

The fuse_fill_write_pages function in fs/fuse/file.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a writev system call that triggers a zero length for the first segment of an iov.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 4.4
suse linux_enterprise_real_time_extension

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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