CVE-2015-8830
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8830
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2015-8830.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2015-8830
- Downstream
- Published
- 2016-05-02T10:59:20Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:29Z
- Severity
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- 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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Integer overflow in the aiosetupsingle_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.
- References
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- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4c185ce06dca14f5cea192f5a2c981ef50663f2b
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3503
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2968-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2968-2
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2969-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2970-1
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1854
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3083
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3096
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4c185ce06dca14f5cea192f5a2c981ef50663f2b
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c4f4b82694fe48b02f7a881a1797131a6dad1364
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1314275
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c4f4b82694fe48b02f7a881a1797131a6dad1364
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/02/9