CVE-2011-4098: Buffer Overflow
First published: Sat Jun 08 2013(Updated: )
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.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Kernel | <=3.2 | |
| Linux Kernel | =3.2-rc2 | |
| Linux Kernel | =3.2-rc3 | |
| Linux Kernel | =3.2-rc4 | |
| Linux Kernel | =3.2-rc5 | |
| Linux Kernel | =3.2-rc6 |
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Reference Links
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=64dd153c83743af81f20924c6343652d731eeecb
- https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git;a=commit;h=fadca7bdc43b02f518585d9547019966415cadfd
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/64dd153c83743af81f20924c6343652d731eeecb
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/cluster-devel/2011-September/msg00064.html
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.2.bz2
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=64dd153c83743af81f20924c6343652d731eeecb
- https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fadca7bdc43b02f518585d9547019966415cadfd
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