Bug 753341 (CVE-2011-4132) - CVE-2011-4132 kernel: jbd/jbd2: invalid value of first log block leads to oops
Summary: CVE-2011-4132 kernel: jbd/jbd2: invalid value of first log block leads to oops
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2011-4132
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 693981 706810 753343 753344 753345 753346 761379
Blocks: 753351
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-11-11 22:23 UTC by Petr Matousek
Modified: 2021-02-24 13:46 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-04-11 17:36:59 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:0007 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2012-01-11 01:02:46 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:0010 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update 2012-01-11 01:14:23 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:0333 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update 2012-02-24 01:21:35 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:0350 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: kernel security and bug fix update 2012-03-06 23:43:05 UTC

Description Petr Matousek 2011-11-11 22:23:06 UTC 
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
Comment 3 Petr Matousek 2011-11-11 22:34:36 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 753346]
Comment 5 Petr Matousek 2011-11-11 22:44:29 UTC 
Statement:

This issue affects the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4,
5, 6, and Red Hat Enterprise MRG. This has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and Red Hat Enterprise MRG via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0007.html, https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0350.html, and https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0010.html. Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4 is now in Production 3 of the maintenance life-cycle,
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/, therefore the fix for
this issue is not currently planned to be included in the future updates.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2011-11-29 00:22:03 UTC 
kernel-2.6.35.14-106.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2012-01-10 20:09:21 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2012:0007 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0007.html
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2012-01-10 20:16:59 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  MRG for RHEL-6 v.2

Via RHSA-2012:0010 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0010.html
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2012-02-23 20:23:31 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  MRG for RHEL-6 v.2

Via RHSA-2012:0333 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0333.html
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2012-03-06 18:44:49 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:0350 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0350.html
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