CVE-2008-3535

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 2
Modified
Published: 08 Aug 2008, 19:00
Last modified:07 Aug 2024, 09:45

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
4.9 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.05% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
1 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

08 Aug 2008, 19:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
07 Aug 2024, 09:45
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.9AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.05%• Percentile: 15%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-193•Off-by-one Error

    A product calculates or uses an incorrect maximum or minimum value that is 1 more, or 1 less, than the correct value.

Affected Systems

  • canonical•ubuntu_linux

    6.06 | 7.10 | 8.04

  • debian•debian_linux

    4.0

  • linux•linux_kernel

    < 2.6.27 | 2.6.27 | 2.6.27:rc1

References (11)