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CVE-2008-3535

CVE-2008-3535

EPSS 0.5%
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
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References
http://mirror.celinuxforum.org/gitstat/commit-detail.php?commit=94ad374a0751f40d25e22e036c37f7263569d24chttp://secunia.com/advisories/31881http://secunia.com/advisories/32190http://secunia.com/advisories/32393https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44492http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1636http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.27-rc2http://www.lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/30/446http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0857.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31132http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-659-1