CVE-2011-2491

Published: Mar 1, 2013

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The Network Lock Manager (NLM) protocol implementation in the NFS client functionality in the Linux kernel before 3.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via a LOCK_UN flock system call.

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

References

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0b760113a3a155269a3fba93a409c640031dd68f

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RHSA-2011:1212

vendor-advisory

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[oss-security] 20110623 Re: CVE request: kernel: NLM: Don't hang forever on NLM unlock requests

mailing-list

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0b760113a3a155269a3fba93a409c640031dd68f

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709393

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CVE-2011-2491

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