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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2011-1163

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2011-1163

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
04/09/2011
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/17/2015
Modified
06/21/2018

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-kernel-bigsmp
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-debug
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-debug-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-debug-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-desktop
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-desktop-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-desktop-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-iseries64
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-kdump
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-kdumppae
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-pae
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-pae-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-pae-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ppc64
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-smp
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-source
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-source-vanilla
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-syms
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-trace
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-trace-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-trace-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-vanilla
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-vanilla-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-vanilla-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-vmi
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-vmi-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-vmi-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-vmipae
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-xen
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-xen-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-xen-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-xenpae
  • suse-upgrade-preload-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-preload-kmp-desktop

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