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Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 08:55:00 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- kernel: jbd/jbd2: invalid value
 of first log block leads to oops

On 11/11/2011 03:50 PM, Petr Matousek wrote:
> A flaw was found in the way Linux kernel's Journaling Block Device (JBD)
> handled invalid log first block value. An attacker able to mount
> malicious ext3 or ext4 image could use this flaw to crash the system.
>
> Upstream commit:
> 8762202dd0d6e46854f786bdb6fb3780a1625efe
>
> Reference:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753341
>
> Thanks,
With apologies, I replied to a previous message twice, the correct CVE
assignment for this issue is:

CVE-2011-4132 is for kernel: jbd/jbd2: invalid value of first log block
leads to oops

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-Kurt Seifried / Red Hat Security Response Team

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