CVE-2011-2695
linux linux kernel: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Multiple off-by-one errors in the ext4 subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.0-rc5 allow local users to cause a denial of service (BUG_ON and system crash) by accessing a sparse file in extent format with a write operation involving a block number corresponding to the largest possible 32-bit unsigned integer.
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 39% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-193
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f17722f917b2f21497deb6edc62fb1683daa08e6
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45193
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/testing/ChangeLog-3.0-rc5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/15/7
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/15/8