CVE-2008-7316: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

mm/filemap.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.25 allows local users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a writev system call that triggers an iovec of zero length, followed by a page fault for an iovec of nonzero length.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 2.6.24

Published 2016-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.