CVE-2011-1163
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2011-04-10 01:00
Modified
2024-08-06 22:14
Severity ?
Summary
The osf_partition function in fs/partitions/osf.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 does not properly handle an invalid number of partitions, which might allow local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel heap memory via vectors related to partition-table parsing.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100145416Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1eafbfeb7bdf59cfe173304c76188f3fd5f1fd05
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/14Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/9Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0833.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://securityreason.com/securityalert/8189Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://securitytracker.com/id?1025225Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38Broken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.pre-cert.de/advisories/PRE-SA-2011-02.txtThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517050Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46878Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.spinics.net/lists/mm-commits/msg82737.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688021Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
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