CVE-2011-4086
Vulnerability Summary
Timeline
Description
The journal_unmap_buffer function in fs/jbd2/transaction.c in the Linux kernel before 3.3.1 does not properly handle the _Delay and _Unwritten buffer head states, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by leveraging the presence of an ext4 filesystem that was mounted with a journal.
CVSS Metrics
- v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.9AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
EPSS Trends
Current EPSS score: 0.06%• Percentile: 20%
Techniques & Countermeasures
- CWE-119•Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
Affected Systems
- linux•linux_kernel
≤ 3.3 | 3.0:rc1 | 3.0:rc2 | 3.0:rc3 | 3.0:rc4 | 3.0:rc5 | 3.0:rc6 | 3.0:rc7 | 3.0.1 | 3.0.2 | 3.0.3 | 3.0.4 | 3.0.5 | 3.0.6 | 3.0.7 | 3.0.8 | 3.0.9 | 3.0.10 | 3.0.11 | 3.0.12 | 3.0.13 | 3.0.14 | 3.0.15 | 3.0.16 | 3.0.17 | 3.0.18 | 3.0.19 | 3.0.20 | 3.0.21 | 3.0.22 | 3.0.23 | 3.0.24 | 3.0.25 | 3.0.26 | 3.0.27 | 3.0.28 | 3.0.29 | 3.0.30 | 3.0.31 | 3.0.32 | 3.0.33 | 3.0.34 | 3.1 | 3.1:rc1 | 3.1:rc2 | 3.1:rc3 | 3.1:rc4 | 3.1.1 | 3.12 | 3.13 | 3.14 | 3.15 | 3.16 | 3.17 | 3.18 | 3.19 | 3.1.10 | 3.2 | 3.2:rc2 | 3.2:rc3 | 3.2:rc4 | 3.2:rc5 | 3.2:rc6 | 3.2:rc7 | 3.2.1 | 3.2.2 | 3.2.3 | 3.2.4 | 3.2.5 | 3.2.6 | 3.2.7 | 3.2.8 | 3.2.9 | 3.2.10 | 3.2.11 | 3.2.12 | 3.2.13 | 3.2.14 | 3.2.15 | 3.2.16 | 3.2.17 | 3.2.18 | 3.2.19 | 3.2.20
References (11)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749143
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48898
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/15291164b22a357cb211b618adfef4fa82fc0de3
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0670.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2469
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48964
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=15291164b22a357cb211b618adfef4fa82fc0de3
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00013.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0571.html
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.3.1