CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-0463
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-04-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The ocfs2_prepare_page_for_write function in fs/ocfs2/aops.c in the Oracle Cluster File System 2 (OCFS2) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39-rc1 does not properly handle holes that cross page boundaries, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from uninitialized disk locations by reading a file.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.38.2)
• canonical ubuntu linux 8.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=272b62c1f0f6f742046e45b50b6fec98860208a0 git.kernel.org
- http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-devel/2011-February/007846.html Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43966 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.39-rc1 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1146-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673037 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=272b62c1f0f6f742046e45b50b6fec98860208a0 git.kernel.org
- http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-devel/2011-February/007846.html Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43966 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.39-rc1 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1146-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673037 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory