CVE-2011-2695

Vulnerability Description

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.

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Related Weaknesses (CWE)

References

• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=
• http://secunia.com/advisories/45193Third Party Advisory
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/testing/ChangeLog-3.0-rc5Broken Link
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/15/7Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/15/8Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
• http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg25697.htmlExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722557Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=
• http://secunia.com/advisories/45193Third Party Advisory
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/testing/ChangeLog-3.0-rc5Broken Link
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/15/7Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/15/8Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
• http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg25697.htmlExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=722557Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory