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.
References
- [oss-security] 20160124 Re: CVE Request: Linux: fuse: possible denial of service in fuse_fill_write_pages() mailing-list
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=124d3b7041f9a0ca7c43a6293e1cae4576c32fd5
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/124d3b7041f9a0ca7c43a6293e1cae4576c32fd5
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1302009
- http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25