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CVE-2007-6716

CVE-2007-6716

EPSS 0.5%
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
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References
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=848c4dd5153c7a0de55470ce99a8e13a63b4703fhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00000.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00007.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00008.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00000.htmlhttp://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/30/448http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0972.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461082http://secunia.com/advisories/32023http://secunia.com/advisories/32103http://secunia.com/advisories/32237