CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2695
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-07-28
- 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-193
Description
Multiple off-by-one errors in the ext4 subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.0-rc5 allow local users to cause a denial of service (BUG_ON and system crash) by accessing a sparse file in extent format with a write operation involving a block number corresponding to the largest possible 32-bit unsigned integer.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 3.0)
• linux linux kernel 3.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-193 Off-by-one Error weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f17722f917b2f21497deb6edc62fb1683daa08e6 git.kernel.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45193 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/testing/ChangeLog-3.0-rc5 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/15/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/15/8 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg25697.html Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722557 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f17722f917b2f21497deb6edc62fb1683daa08e6 git.kernel.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45193 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/testing/ChangeLog-3.0-rc5 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/15/7 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/15/8 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg25697.html Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722557 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory