CVE-2011-0463
LOW · CVSS 2.1EPSS 0.5%EU EUVD
The ocfs2_prepare_page_for_write function in fs/ocfs2/aops.c in the Oracle Cluster File System 2 (OCFS2) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39-rc1 does not properly handle holes that cross page boundaries, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from uninitialized disk locations by reading a file.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 2.1 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 0.5% (44th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-0483)
- Published
- April 10, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-0483 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- linux / linux kernel
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=272b62c1f0f6f742046e45b50b6fec98860208a0
- http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-devel/2011-February/007846.html(Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43966(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.39-rc1(Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1146-1(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673037(Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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