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

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

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/03/2018
Created
07/10/2021
Added
07/09/2021
Modified
07/09/2021

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(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-block-blktrace

References

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