Bug 679282 (CVE-2011-1010)

Summary:	CVE-2011-1010 kernel: fs/partitions: Validate map_count in Mac partition tables
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Eugene Teo (Security Response) <eteo>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	arozansk, bhu, davej, dhoward, jkacur, jpirko, kernel-mgr, kmcmartin, lgoncalv, lwang, rt-maint, tcallawa, williams
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Bug Depends On:	679283, 679284, 679285, 679286, 679287
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Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2011-02-22 06:40:26 UTC

Validate number of blocks in map and remove redundant variable.

Upstream commit:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/fa7ea87a057958a8b7926c1a60a3ca6d696328ed

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Timo Warns for reporting this issue.

Comment 3 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2011-02-23 03:02:45 UTC

Greg explained this nicely: "Incorrectly formed mac partition tables could cause bad things to happen when it was automatically scanned after plugging in a device with this type of partition table on it."

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2011-04-12 18:20:15 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2011:0429 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0429.html

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-10 17:20:27 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  MRG for RHEL-5

Via RHSA-2011:0500 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0500.html

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 11:58:42 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:0542 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0542.html

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-23 20:40:06 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:0542 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0542.html

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2011-06-21 23:53:12 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0.Z - Server Only

Via RHSA-2011:0883 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0883.html

Comment 9 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2011-07-19 05:34:34 UTC

Statement:

This has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and Red Hat Enterprise MRG via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0429.html, https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0542.html and https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0500.html. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 is now in Production 3 of the maintenance life-cycle, https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/, therefore the fix for this issue is not currently planned to be included in the future updates.