XFS Subsystem Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2016-8660 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The XFS subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.8.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (fdatasync failure and system hang) by using the vfs syscall group in the trinity program, related to a "page lock order bug in the XFS seek hole/data implementation."

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