CVE-2011-4098

published 2013-06-08

CVE-2011-4098: 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…

Priority P4 5 low 1.9 CVSS 2.0

AV L AC M Au N C N I N A P

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

7 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	linux	< linux 3.2.1-1 (bookworm)	linux 3.2.1-1 (bookworm)
linux	linux_kernel	<= 3.2	—
linux	linux_kernel	—	—
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 3.2.1-1	3.2.1-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 3.2.1-1	3.2.1-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 3.2.1-1	3.2.1-1
linux	linux_kernel	>= 0 < 3.2.1-1	3.2.1-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 1.9 LOW AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv 1.9 LOW

vendor_debian 1.9 LOW

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