CVE-2011-4098

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Summary

CVECVE-2011-4098
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2013-06-08 13:05:55 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 1.9 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 3.2 rc2 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 3.2 rc3 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 3.2 rc4 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 3.2 rc5 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 3.2 rc6 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All rc7 All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss.oracle.com - redpatch.git/commit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oss.oracle.com
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.kernel.org
GFS2: rewrite fallocate code to write blocks directly · torvalds/linux@64dd153 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com
[Cluster-devel] [PATCH] GFS2: rewrite fallocate code to write blocks dir af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.2.bz2 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kernel.org Patch
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MITRE git.kernel.org
oss.oracle.com - redpatch.git/commit MITRE oss.oracle.com
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