CVE-2011-1163 in Kernelinfo

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.

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Reservation

03/03/2011

Disclosure

04/09/2011

Status

Confirmed

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