CVE-2010-3015: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in the ext4_ext_get_blocks function in fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG and system crash) via a write operation on the last block of a large file, followed by a sync operation.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 2.6.33.7; version 2.6.0 only; version 2.6.1 only; version 2.6.2 only; version 2.6.3 only; version 2.6.4 only; …

Published 2010-08-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.