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Message-ID: <4DC8E9FF.2010105@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 15:32:15 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@...e.de>,
"Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: kernel: validate size of EFI GUID
partition entries
On 05/10/2011 03:18 PM, Sebastian Krahmer wrote:
>
> 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.
I double-checked, it's different...
Eugene
> 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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