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CVE-2011-3638

Published: Mar 1, 2013

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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Description

fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0 does not mark a modified extent as dirty in certain cases of extent splitting, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via vectors involving ext4 umount and mount operations.

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

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/667eff35a1f56fa74ce98a0c7c29a40adc1ba4e3

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[oss-security] 20111024 Re: CVE Request -- kernel: ext4: ext4_ext_insert_extent() kernel oops

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=667eff35a1f56fa74ce98a0c7c29a40adc1ba4e3

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

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747942

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