Off-by-one errors in ext4 subsystem leading to denial of service in Linux kernel

CVE-2011-2695 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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