FKIE_CVE-2011-4098

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2013-06-08 13:05 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:34
Severity
Summary
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
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=64dd153c83743af81f20924c6343652d731eeecb
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.2.bz2Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/64dd153c83743af81f20924c6343652d731eeecb
secalert@redhat.comhttps://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fadca7bdc43b02f518585d9547019966415cadfd
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.redhat.com/archives/cluster-devel/2011-September/msg00064.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=64dd153c83743af81f20924c6343652d731eeecb
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.2.bz2Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/64dd153c83743af81f20924c6343652d731eeecb
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fadca7bdc43b02f518585d9547019966415cadfd
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.redhat.com/archives/cluster-devel/2011-September/msg00064.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 3.2
linux linux_kernel 3.2
linux linux_kernel 3.2
linux linux_kernel 3.2
linux linux_kernel 3.2
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