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CVE-2008-7316

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

mm/filemap.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.25 allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a writev system call that triggers an iovec of zero length, followed by a page fault for an iovec of nonzero length.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: through 2.6.24

References

• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=124d3b7041f9a0ca7c43a6293e1cae4576c32fd5
• http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/24/6
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302009
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/124d3b7041f9a0ca7c43a6293e1cae4576c32fd5
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=124d3b7041f9a0ca7c43a6293e1cae4576c32fd5
• http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/24/6
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302009
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/124d3b7041f9a0ca7c43a6293e1cae4576c32fd5

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