CVE-2011-2695

Linux Kernel < 3.0 - Denial of Service

Title source: rule

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.

References (7)

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/15/8

[Patch] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f17722f917b2f21497deb6edc62fb1683daa08e6

[Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722557

[Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg25697.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/15/7

[Broken Link] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/testing/ChangeLog-3.0-rc5

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/45193

Scores

EPSS 0.0007

EPSS Percentile 20.6%

Details

CWE

CWE-193

Status published

Products (2)

linux/linux_kernel 3.0 (5 CPE variants)

linux/linux_kernel < 3.0

Published Jul 28, 2011

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026