EUVD-2011-4037

Malware in sbrugna...

Scientific Linux Security Update : kernel on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120515)

This update fixes the following security issues : - A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's journalunmapbuffer function handled buffer head states. On systems that have an ext4 file system with a journal mounted, a local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service...

CVE-2011-4086

The journalunmapbuffer function in fs/jbd2/transaction.c in the Linux kernel before 3.3.1 does not properly handle the Delay and Unwritten buffer head states, which allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash by leveraging the presence of an ext4 filesystem that was mounted with ...