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kernel: xfs: _xfs_buf_find oops on blocks beyond the filesystem end

Published Mar 6, 2013

Description

The _xfs_buf_find function in fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.6 does not validate block numbers, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the ability to mount an XFS filesystem containing a metadata inode with an invalid extent map.

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Red Hat statement

This issue does not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue affects the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2. Due to it's limited impact, this issue is not currently planned to be addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Mar 6, 2013
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Feb 19, 2013
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Jan 21, 2013