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CVE-2015-8830

Date: May 2, 2016

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (18)

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3503
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8830
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c4f4b82694fe48b02f7a881a1797131a6dad1364
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1854
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314275
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2968-1
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-8830
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2969-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2968-2
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2970-1
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8830
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3096
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3083
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4c185ce06dca14f5cea192f5a2c981ef50663f2b
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/02/9
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4c185ce06dca14f5cea192f5a2c981ef50663f2b
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c4f4b82694fe48b02f7a881a1797131a6dad1364
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-8830

Severity Score

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): COMPLETE
Integrity (I): COMPLETE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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