Bug 679282 (CVE-2011-1010) - CVE-2011-1010 kernel: fs/partitions: Validate map_count in Mac partition tables
Summary: CVE-2011-1010 kernel: fs/partitions: Validate map_count in Mac partition tables
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2011-1010
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 679283 679284 679285 679286 679287
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-22 06:40 UTC by Eugene Teo (Security Response)
Modified: 2021-02-24 16:29 UTC (History)
13 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-03-26 18:01:28 UTC

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:0429 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security and bug fix update 2011-04-12 18:19:57 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:0500 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update 2011-05-10 17:18:23 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:0542 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 kernel security, bug fix and enhancement update 2011-05-19 11:58:07 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:0883 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel security and bug fix update 2011-06-21 23:52:55 UTC

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.
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