Security Advisory

CVE-2011-1163

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2011-04-10 01:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 22:14:27
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.