CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-4098
1.9 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-06-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 3.2)
• linux linux kernel 3.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=64dd153c83743af81f20924c6343652d731eeecb git.kernel.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.2.bz2 Patch
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/64dd153c83743af81f20924c6343652d731eeecb github.com
- https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fadca7bdc43b02f518585d9547019966415cadfd oss.oracle.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/cluster-devel/2011-September/msg00064.html www.redhat.com
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=64dd153c83743af81f20924c6343652d731eeecb git.kernel.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.2.bz2 Patch
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/64dd153c83743af81f20924c6343652d731eeecb github.com
- https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fadca7bdc43b02f518585d9547019966415cadfd oss.oracle.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/cluster-devel/2011-September/msg00064.html www.redhat.com