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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:43:12 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Timo Warns <warns@...-sense.de>
Subject: Re: CVE Request: kernel: fs/partitions: Corrupted
 GUID partition tables can cause kernel oops

On 04/13/2011 05:53 AM, Timo Warns wrote:
> The Linux kernel automatically evaluates partition tables of storage
> devices. The code for evaluating EFI GUID partitions (in
> fs/partitions/efi.c) contains a bug that causes a kernel oops on certain
> corrupted GUID partition tables.
>
> A patch is available at
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/mm-commits/msg83274.html

Please use CVE-2011-1577.

Eugene
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