CVE-2015-8830

high

Published 2016-05-02 · Modified 2026-05-06

CVSS v3

7.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2

7.2

VIR risk

7.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8830

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@debian.org — https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c4f4b82694fe48b02f7a881a1797131a6dad1364

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@debian.org — https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4c185ce06dca14f5cea192f5a2c981ef50663f2b

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@debian.org — http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4c185ce06dca14f5cea192f5a2c981ef50663f2b

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`4.1.3-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4.1.3-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`4.1.3-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`4.1.3-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4.1.3-1`
linux-kernel	4.0	affected

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.