Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's Journaling Block Device (JBD) Functionality

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's Journaling Block Device (JBD) Functionality

CVE-2011-4132 · LOW Severity

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

The cleanup_journal_tail function in the Journaling Block Device (JBD) functionality in the Linux kernel 2.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (assertion error and kernel oops) via an ext3 or ext4 image with an "invalid log first block value."

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