CVE-2011-2689

CVE Details

Release Date:	2011-07-28
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

The gfs2_fallocate function in fs/gfs2/file.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0-rc1 does not ensure that the size of a chunk allocation is a multiple of the block size, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG and system crash) by arranging for all resource groups to have too little free space.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	4.9
Vector String:	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Local
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2011-1065	2011-07-31
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-274.el5)	ELSA-2011-1065	2011-07-31
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-274.el5)	ELSA-2011-1065	2011-07-31
Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel)	ELSA-2011-1189	2011-08-23