Upstream information
Description
fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0 does not mark a modified extent as dirty in certain cases of extent splitting, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via vectors involving ext4 umount and mount operations.NVD CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.0 (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Novell/SUSE information
Novell Bugzilla entry: 726045 SUSE Security Advisories:- openSUSE-SU-2012:0799-1, published Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:08:31 +0200 (CEST)
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1439-1, published Mon, 5 Nov 2012 10:09:03 +0100 (CET)