Denial of Service Vulnerability in GFS2 Filesystem Preallocation

CVE-2011-4098 · LOW Severity

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

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.

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