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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T23:08:23.784Z

Reserved: 2011-07-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2011-2689

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2011-07-28T22:55:02.580

Modified: 2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Link: CVE-2011-2689

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2011-04-26T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2011-2689 - Bugzilla

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