VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2011-3638

CVSS score4 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.36%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2013-03-01
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

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.

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