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CVE-2011-4325

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-01-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The NFS implementation in Linux kernel before 2.6.31-rc6 calls certain functions without properly initializing certain data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and O_DIRECT oops), as demonstrated using diotest4 from LTP.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: through 2.6.31; 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5 (+307)

References

• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=1ae88b2e4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51366
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755455
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72297
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=1ae88b2e4
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51366
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755455
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72297

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