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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

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Summary

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.

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References 5

GitHub · torvalds/linux

openwall.com

git.kernel.org

ftp.osuosl.org

bugzilla.redhat.com