CVE-2015-0275

A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's ext4 file system handled the "page size > block size" condition when the fallocate zero range functionality was used. A local attacker could use this flaw to crash the system.

This issue does not affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. This issue does affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2. Future updates in the respective releases may address this issue.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.