CVE-2011-2689 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2011-2689

The gfs2_fallocate function in fs/gfs2/file.c in the Linux kernel before...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

linux kernel, enterprise linux desktop, enterprise linux server, enterprise linux workstation
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 3.0, 5.0

Timeline

Official Publish: July 28th, 2011
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.