PT-2016-3460 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Frederik Himpe · Published 2016-05-02 · Updated 2016-05-06 · CVE-2008-7316

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.25

Description The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service, resulting in an infinite loop. This occurs when a writev system call is made, triggering an iovec of zero length, followed by a page fault for an iovec of nonzero length.

Recommendations For Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.25, update to version 2.6.25 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-7316

Affected Products

Linux Kernel

References · 10

• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/124d3b7041f9a0ca7c43a6293e1cae4576c32fd5 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2008-7316 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-7316 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2008-7316 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-7316 · Security Note
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=124d3b7041f9a0ca7c43a6293e1cae4576c32fd5 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25 · Note
• https://git.kernel.org/linus/124d3b7041f9a0ca7c43a6293e1cae4576c32fd5 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/24/6 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302009 · Note