CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2011-2695

Off-by-one Error

Published: Jul 28, 2011 | Modified: Feb 13, 2023
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Weakness

A product calculates or uses an incorrect maximum or minimum value that is 1 more, or 1 less, than the correct value.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0 3.0
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0 3.0
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0 3.0
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0 3.0
Linux_kernel Linux * *
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0 3.0

Potential Mitigations

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