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Tracker / CVE-2011-2493

CVE-2011-2493

Low 2.1

The ext4_fill_super function in fs/ext4/super.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not properly initialize a certain error-report data structure, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) by attempting to mount a crafted ext4 filesystem.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.38.8

Analysis

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