| Summary: | Kernel : ext4: hang when mounting non-journal filesystems with orphan list (CVE-2013-2015) | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Security | Reporter: | Agostino Sarubbo <ago> |
| Component: | Kernel | Assignee: | Gentoo Kernel Security <security-kernel> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | kernel |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=957123 | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Patch in 3.8 onwards |
From ${URL} : Linux kernel built with an Ext4 file system is vulnerable to a system hang situation when [auto]mounting a non-journal filesystem with an orphan list to clear. A user could use this flaw to stall the system resulting in DoS. Upstream fix: ------------- -> https://git.kernel.org/linus/0e9a9a1ad619e7e987815d20262d36a2f95717ca