vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-10689: blktrace: Buffer overflow

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 3, 2018
Added
Jul 9, 2021
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

Description

blktrace (aka Block IO Tracing) 1.2.0, as used with the Linux kernel and Android, has a buffer overflow in the dev_map_read function in btt/devmap.c because the device and devno arrays are too small, as demonstrated by an invalid free when using the btt program with a crafted file.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-block-blktrace
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