CVE-2011-3638

fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0 does not mark a modified extent as dirty in certain cases of extent splitting, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via vectors involving ext4 umount and mount operations.

🔗 References (10)

• secalert@redhathttp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0
• secalert@redhathttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=667eff35a1f56fa74ce98a0c7c29a40adc1ba4e3
• secalert@redhathttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/24/2
• secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747942
• secalert@redhathttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/667eff35a1f56fa74ce98a0c7c29a40adc1ba4e3
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=667eff35a1f56fa74ce98a0c7c29a40adc1ba4e3
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/24/2
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747942
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/667eff35a1f56fa74ce98a0c7c29a40adc1ba4e3