CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2491
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-03-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 3.0)
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 5.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 5.0
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 5.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0 Broken Link
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0b760113a3a155269a3fba93a409c640031dd68f git.kernel.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1212.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/23/6 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709393 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0b760113a3a155269a3fba93a409c640031dd68f Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0 Broken Link
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0b760113a3a155269a3fba93a409c640031dd68f git.kernel.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1212.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/23/6 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709393 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0b760113a3a155269a3fba93a409c640031dd68f Patch, Third Party Advisory