CVE-2011-1163 (GCVE-0-2011-1163)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2011-04-10 01:00
Modified
2024-08-06 22:14
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
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.com http://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100145416 Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1eafbfeb7bdf59cfe173304c76188f3fd5f1fd05
secalert@redhat.com http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/14 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/9 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0833.html Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8189 Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com http://securitytracker.com/id?1025225 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.com http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38 Broken Link
secalert@redhat.com http://www.pre-cert.de/advisories/PRE-SA-2011-02.txt Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517050 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46878 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.com http://www.spinics.net/lists/mm-commits/msg82737.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688021 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100145416 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1eafbfeb7bdf59cfe173304c76188f3fd5f1fd05
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/14 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/15/9 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0833.html Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8189 Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://securitytracker.com/id?1025225 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38 Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.pre-cert.de/advisories/PRE-SA-2011-02.txt Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517050 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46878 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.spinics.net/lists/mm-commits/msg82737.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688021 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
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