CVE-2011-2493

Publication date

2012-06-13 10:00:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The ext4_fill_super function in fs/ext4/super.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not properly initialize a certain error-report data structure, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) by attempting to mount a crafted ext4 filesystem.