SUSE CVE-2008-5700

libata in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27.9 does not set minimum timeouts for SGIO requests, which allows local users to cause a denial of service Programmed I/O mode on drives via multiple simultaneous invocations of an unspecified test program...

kernel: enforce a minimum SG_IO timeout

libata in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27.9 does not set minimum timeouts for SGIO requests, which allows local users to cause a denial of service Programmed I/O mode on drives via multiple simultaneous invocations of an unspecified test program...