CVE-2011-4098

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    CVE-2011-4098

    Published: 8 Jun 2013Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    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.

    References: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.2.bz2, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/64dd153c83743af81f20924c6343652d731eeecb, http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=64dd153c83743af81f20924c6343652d731eeecb, https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fadca7bdc43b02f518585d9547019966415cadfd, https://www.redhat.com/archives/cluster-devel/2011-September/msg00064.html

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    High
    User Interaction
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    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
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    High