A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's splice() system call validated its parameters. On certain file systems, a local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to write past the maximum file size, and thus crash the system.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | kernel | 2015-02-11 19:34 | ALAS-2015-476 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 4.9 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |