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GHSA-GFX9-PW8H-48W8

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-17 05:08 – Updated: 2025-04-11 04:10

Details

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.

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CVE-2011-4098 (GCVE-0-2011-4098)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-06-08 10:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 17:18

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat

References

5 references

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GHSA-GFX9-PW8H-48W8

CVE-2011-4098 (GCVE-0-2011-4098)

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