CVE-2011-4098
low
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
1.9
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
Linux kernel Affected 2 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| 3.2 | Affected | — |
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 3.2.1-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 3.2.1-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 3.2.1-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 3.2.1-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 3.2.1-1 |
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=64dd153c83743af81f20924c6343652d731eeecb
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.2.bz2
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/64dd153c83743af81f20924c6343652d731eeecb
- https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fadca7bdc43b02f518585d9547019966415cadfd
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/cluster-devel/2011-September/msg00064.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4098
CWEs
CWE-119
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