CVE-2015-8830

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.

This issue does not affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, as the related AIO vector code is not present in this product.

This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7. Future Linux kernel updates for the respective releases might address this issue.

This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux MRG-2. This flaw is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates due to MRG-2 being an EUS release. For additional information, refer to the Extended Update Support (EUS) Guide: https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-eus.

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