Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's fuse_fill_write_pages Function

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's fuse_fill_write_pages Function

CVE-2015-8785 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The fuse_fill_write_pages function in fs/fuse/file.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a writev system call that triggers a zero length for the first segment of an iov.

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