CVE-2011-1776
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 6, 2011
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Apr 19, 2011
Description
The is_gpt_valid function in fs/partitions/efi.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not check the size of an Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) GUID Partition Table (GPT) entry, which allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and OOPS) or obtain sensitive information from kernel heap memory by connecting a crafted GPT storage device, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1577.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- RHSA-2011:0927vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20110510 Re: CVE request: kernel: validate size of EFI GUID partition entriesmailing-list
- 8369third-party-advisory
- 47796vdb-entry
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fa039d5f6b126fbd65eefa05db2f67e44df8f121
- http://www.pre-cert.de/advisories/PRE-SA-2011-04.txt
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703026
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