4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.3%
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.