kernel: denial of service [LWN.net]

Package(s):

kernel

CVE #(s):

CVE-2011-2695

Created:

August 23, 2011

Updated:

September 13, 2011

Description:

From the CVE entry:

Multiple off-by-one errors in the ext4 subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.0-rc5 allow local users to cause a denial of service (BUG_ON and system crash) by accessing a sparse file in extent format with a write operation involving a block number corresponding to the largest possible 32-bit unsigned integer.

Alerts:

Ubuntu	USN-1256-1	2011-11-09
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2011:1222-1	2011-11-08
Ubuntu	USN-1246-1	2011-10-25
Ubuntu	USN-1245-1	2011-10-25
Ubuntu	USN-1244-1	2011-10-25
Ubuntu	USN-1243-1	2011-10-25
Ubuntu	USN-1242-1	2011-10-25
Ubuntu	USN-1241-1	2011-10-25
Ubuntu	USN-1240-1	2011-10-25
Ubuntu	USN-1239-1	2011-10-25
Scientific Linux	SL-kern-20111020	2011-10-20
CentOS	CESA-2011:1386	2011-10-21
Red Hat	RHSA-2011:1386-01	2011-10-20
Ubuntu	USN-1228-1	2011-10-12
Ubuntu	USN-1253-1	2011-11-08
Red Hat	RHSA-2011:1253-01	2011-09-12
Scientific Linux	SL-kern-20110823	2011-08-23
Red Hat	RHSA-2011:1189-01	2011-08-23
Fedora	FEDORA-2011-11103	2011-08-18
Oracle	ELSA-2012-0150	2012-03-07

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