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CVE Reference: CVE-2011-1163 |
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Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2011-1163 |
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Description: 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. |
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CVE Status: Candidate |
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References: ST 1025225 SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8189 MLIST http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/14 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/9 http://www.spinics.net/lists/mm-commits/msg82737.html MISC http://www.pre-cert.de/advisories/PRE-SA-2011-02.txt CONFIRM http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1eafbfeb7bdf59cfe173304c76188f3fd5f1fd05 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517050 BID 46878 |
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