CVE-2011-4098

Published: Jun 8, 2013

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The fallocate implementation in the GFS2 filesystem in the Linux kernel before 3.2 relies on the page cache, which might allow local users to cause a denial of service by preallocating blocks in certain situations involving insufficient memory.

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

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=64dd153c83743af81f20924c6343652d731eeecb

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https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fadca7bdc43b02f518585d9547019966415cadfd

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[cluster-devel] 20110912 [PATCH] GFS2: rewrite fallocate code to write blocks directly

mailing-list

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/64dd153c83743af81f20924c6343652d731eeecb

x_refsource_CONFIRM

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.2.bz2

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CVE-2011-4098

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