National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1577

Overview

Heap-based buffer overflow in the is_gpt_valid function in fs/partitions/efi.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.38 and earlier allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (OOPS) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted size of the EFI GUID partition-table header on removable media.

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External Source: MLIST

Name: [mm-commits] 20110412 + fs-partitions-efic-corrupted-guid-partition-tables-can-cause-kernel-oops.patch added to -mm tree

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.spinics.net/lists/mm-commits/msg83274.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110412 CVE Request: kernel: fs/partitions: Corrupted GUID partition tables can cause kernel oops

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/12/17

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695976

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695976

External Source: XF

Name: kernel-guid-dos(66773)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/66773

External Source: BID

Name: 47343

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/47343

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20110413 [PRE-SA-2011-03] Denial-of-service vulnerability in EFI partition handling code of the Linux kernel

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/517477/100/0/threaded

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1025355

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1025355

External Source: SREASON

Name: 8238

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8238

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110413 Re: CVE Request: kernel: fs/partitions: Corrupted GUID partition tables can cause kernel oops

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/04/13/1

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-7823

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061236.html