Security Advisory
CVE-2015-8830
7.8
HIGH
Vulnerability Description
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.
Published Date
May 2, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory