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CVE-2008-3535

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.9 Published: 2008-08-08 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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 Platforms

Linux Linux KernelCanonical Ubuntu LinuxDebian Debian Linux

Weakness Type

CWE-193

References