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CVE-2011-2695

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.9 EPSS 0.45%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2011-07-28 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.9. It affects Linux. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.

CVE
CVE-2011-2695
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
4.9
EPSS
0.45%
Linux

Original NVD Description

Multiple off-by-one errors in the ext4 subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.0-rc5 allow local users to cause a denial of service (BUG_ON and system crash) by accessing a sparse file in extent format with a write operation involving a block number corresponding to the largest possible 32-bit unsigned integer.