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CVE-2008-7316

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2016-05-02 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

mm/filemap.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.25 allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a writev system call that triggers an iovec of zero length, followed by a page fault for an iovec of nonzero length.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References