CVE-2011-4098

Linux Kernel < 3.2 - Denial of Service via GFS2 fallocate Page Cache Handling

Title source: llm

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.

References (5)

Core 5

Core References

Patch x_refsource_confirm

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/64dd153c83743af81f20924c6343652d731eeecb

Patch x_refsource_confirm

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=64dd153c83743af81f20924c6343652d731eeecb

Various Sources x_refsource_confirm

https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fadca7bdc43b02f518585d9547019966415cadfd

Vendor Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

https://www.redhat.com/archives/cluster-devel/2011-September/msg00064.html

Patch x_refsource_confirm

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.2.bz2

Scores

EPSS 0.0048

EPSS Percentile 38.1%

Details

CWE

CWE-119

Status published

Products (2)

linux/linux_kernel 3.2 rc2 (5 CPE variants)

linux/linux_kernel < 3.2

Published Jun 08, 2013

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026