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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-3535

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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-3535

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44492

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-659-1

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA32393
  Secunia Advisory: SA31881
  Secunia Advisory: SA32190

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0857.html

MLIST
  http://www.lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/30/446

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1636

CONFIRM
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.27-rc2
  http://mirror.celinuxforum.org/gitstat/commit-detail.php?commit=94ad374a0751f40d25e22e036c37f7263569d24c

BID
  31132


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