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CVE-2011-4098
- Severity: low (CVSS 1.9 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2013-06-08 · updated 2026-06-16
- Weakness: CWE-119
Description
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.
Affected products
- Linux kernel: through 3.2; 3.2-rc2, 3.2-rc3, 3.2-rc4, 3.2-rc5, 3.2-rc6
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=64dd153c83743af81f20924c6343652d731eeecb
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.2.bz2
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/64dd153c83743af81f20924c6343652d731eeecb
- https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fadca7bdc43b02f518585d9547019966415cadfd
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/cluster-devel/2011-September/msg00064.html
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=64dd153c83743af81f20924c6343652d731eeecb
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.2.bz2
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/64dd153c83743af81f20924c6343652d731eeecb
- https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fadca7bdc43b02f518585d9547019966415cadfd
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/cluster-devel/2011-September/msg00064.html
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