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Message-ID: <20110510071821.GA9917@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 09:18:21 +0200
From: Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: kernel: validate size of EFI GUID partition entries
Hi,
Is this really different than what was assigned CVE-2011-1577 to?
See http://www.spinics.net/lists/mm-commits/msg83274.html or the text
on the OSS mail on April 12th which reads exactly the same.
Sebastian
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 03:01:06PM -0400, Josh Bressers wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > The kernel automatically evaluates partition tables of storage
> > devices.
> > The code for evaluating GUID partitions (in fs/partitions/efi.c)
> > contains a bug that can cause a kernel heap overflow on certain
> > corrupted GUID partition tables.
> >
> > http://git.kernel.org/linus/fa039d5f6b126fbd65eefa05db2f67e44df8f121
> > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703026
> >
>
> Please use CVE-2011-1776
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> JB
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