CVE-2015-8830

CVE-2015-8830 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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