Re: CVE request: kernel: validate size of EFI GUID partition entries

[Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>]

----- Original Message -----
> The kernel automatically evaluates partition tables of storage
> devices.
> The code for evaluating GUID partitions (in fs/partitions/efi.c)
> contains a bug that can cause a kernel heap overflow on certain
> corrupted GUID partition tables.
>
> http://git.kernel.org/linus/fa039d5f6b126fbd65eefa05db2f67e44df8f121
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=703026

Please use CVE-2011-1776

Thanks.

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    JB