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CVE-2011-1090

Published: May 9, 2011

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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Description

The __nfs4_proc_set_acl function in fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 stores NFSv4 ACL data in memory that is allocated by kmalloc but not properly freed, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via a crafted attempt to set an ACL.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

[oss-security] 20110307 CVE request - kernel: nfs4: Ensure that ACL pages sent over NFS were not allocated from the slab

mailing-list

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20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Console

mailing-list

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third-party-advisory

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vdb-entry

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=682641

x_refsource_CONFIRM

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html

x_refsource_CONFIRM

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e9e3d724e2145f5039b423c290ce2b2c3d8f94bc

x_refsource_CONFIRM

[oss-security] 20110307 Re: CVE request - kernel: nfs4: Ensure that ACL pages sent over NFS were not allocated from the slab

mailing-list

x_refsource_MLIST

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38

x_refsource_CONFIRM

SUSE-SU-2015:0812

vendor-advisory

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