UBUNTU-CVE-2011-4098

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2011-4098

    Published: 8 Jun 2013Last Modified: 16 Jul 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2011-4098

    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: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2011-4098, https://www.redhat.com/archives/cluster-devel/2011-September/msg00064.html, https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git;a=commit;h=fadca7bdc43b02f518585d9547019966415cadfd, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/64dd153c83743af81f20924c6343652d731eeecb, http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.2.bz2, http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=64dd153c83743af81f20924c6343652d731eeecb, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-4098

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.11.0-12.19

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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