ubuntu-cve-2011-2689
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2011-07-28 00:00
Modified
2025-07-16 04:49
Summary
Details
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.
Severity
N/A (UNKNOWN)
References
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"id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2011-2689",
"modified": "2025-07-16T04:49:59Z",
"published": "2011-07-28T00:00:00Z",
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