CVE-2011-2689
The gfs2_fallocate function in fs/gfs2/file.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0-rc1 does not ensure that the size of a chunk allocation is a multiple of the block size, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG and system crash) by arranging for all resource groups to have too little free space.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.9 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-400
- EPSS score
- 0.4% (35th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-2670)
- Published
- July 28, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-2670 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- linux / linux kernel
- linux / linux kernel
- linux / linux kernel
- redhat / enterprise linux desktop
- redhat / enterprise linux server
- redhat / enterprise linux workstation
Certified products that may be affected
1 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified product, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 OpenSSH-Server Cryptographic Module - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 1384 - historical
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6905d9e4dda6112f007e9090bca80507da158e63
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2(Third Party Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1065.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45193(Third Party Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1025776(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/testing/ChangeLog-3.0-rc1(Broken Link)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/13/1(Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48677(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720861(Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/68557(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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