CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-3638
4.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-03-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.0 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 3.0)
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=667eff35a1f56fa74ce98a0c7c29a40adc1ba4e3 git.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/24/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747942 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/667eff35a1f56fa74ce98a0c7c29a40adc1ba4e3 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=667eff35a1f56fa74ce98a0c7c29a40adc1ba4e3 git.kernel.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/24/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747942 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/667eff35a1f56fa74ce98a0c7c29a40adc1ba4e3 Patch, Third Party Advisory