CVE-2011-3638
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Statement
This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 as it did not include support for EXT4 filesystem. It did not affect the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise MRG as it has backported the upstream commit 667eff35 that addressed this issue. This has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0107.html and https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1530.html.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score | 4 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
| Access Vector | Local |
| Access Complexity | High |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Complete |
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Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (kernel) | RHSA-2012:0107 | 2012-02-09 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (kernel) | RHSA-2011:1530 | 2011-12-05 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS (v. 5.6 server) (kernel) | RHSA-2012:0517 | 2012-04-24 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.1) (kernel) | RHSA-2012:0116 | 2012-02-15 |
Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 | realtime-kernel | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | kernel | Not affected |
Acknowledgements
Red Hat would like to thank Zheng Liu for reporting this issue.CVE description copyright © 2017, The MITRE Corporation