CVE-2011-2689
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jul 28, 2011
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jul 11, 2011
Description
The gfs2_fallocate function in fs/gfs2/file.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0-rc1 does not ensure that the size of a chunk allocation is a multiple of the block size, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG and system crash) by arranging for all resource groups to have too little free space.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- [oss-security] 20110713 CVE-2011-2689 kernel: gfs2: make sure fallocate bytes is a multiple of blksizemailing-list
- RHSA-2011:1065vendor-advisory
- linux-kernel-gfs2-dos(68557)vdb-entry
- 1025776vdb-entry
- 48677vdb-entry
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/testing/ChangeLog-3.0-rc1
- 45193third-party-advisory
- HPSBGN02970vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6905d9e4dda6112f007e9090bca80507da158e63
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720861
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