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CVE-2011-3638 (GCVE-0-2011-3638)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-03-01 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 23:37
VLAI
Summary
fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0 does not mark a modified extent as dirty in certain cases of extent splitting, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via vectors involving ext4 umount and mount operations.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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