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CVE-2011-3638

CVE-2011-3638

EPSS 0.4%
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.
Affected products
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References
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/ChangeLog-3.0http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=667eff35a1f56fa74ce98a0c7c29a40adc1ba4e3https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=747942https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/667eff35a1f56fa74ce98a0c7c29a40adc1ba4e3http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/24/2