CVE-2011-1577 (GCVE-0-2011-1577)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2011-05-03 19:00
Modified
2024-08-06 22:28
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in the is_gpt_valid function in fs/partitions/efi.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.38 and earlier allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (OOPS) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted size of the EFI GUID partition-table header on removable media.
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