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Tracker / CVE-2011-4098

CVE-2011-4098

Low 1.9

The fallocate implementation in the GFS2 filesystem in the Linux kernel before 3.2 relies on the page cache, which might allow local users to cause a denial of service by preallocating blocks in certain situations involving insufficient memory.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 3.2

Analysis

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