oss-security - CVE request: kernel: validate size of EFI GUID partition entries

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Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 11:15:48 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: CVE request: kernel: validate size of EFI GUID partition entries

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

Thanks, Eugene

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