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CVE Reference: CVE-2011-2695 |
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Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2011-2695 |
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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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CVE Status: Candidate |
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References: SAID Secunia Advisory: SA45193 MLIST http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-ext4/msg25697.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/15/7 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/15/8 CONFIRM http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f17722f917b2f21497deb6edc62fb1683daa08e6 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/testing/ChangeLog-3.0-rc5 |
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