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CVE-2015-8830

Published: May 2, 2016

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Integer overflow in the aio_setup_single_vector function in fs/aio.c in the Linux kernel 4.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large AIO iovec. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of a CVE-2012-6701 regression.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4c185ce06dca14f5cea192f5a2c981ef50663f2b

x_refsource_CONFIRM

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_DEBIAN

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314275

x_refsource_CONFIRM

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c4f4b82694fe48b02f7a881a1797131a6dad1364

x_refsource_CONFIRM

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4c185ce06dca14f5cea192f5a2c981ef50663f2b

x_refsource_CONFIRM

[oss-security] 20160302 Re: CVE Request: Linux: aio write triggers integer overflow in some network protocols

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c4f4b82694fe48b02f7a881a1797131a6dad1364

x_refsource_CONFIRM

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