PRE-CERT Security Advisory – The Linux kernel contains a vulnerability that may lead to an information disclosure or a denial-of-service due to corrupted partition tables on storage devices. The kernel automatically evaluates partition tables of storage devices. The code for evaluating EFI GUID partition tables contains a buffer overflow bug that allows to leak data from the kernel heap to userspace or that may allow to cause a kernel oops resulting in a denial of service.
Source: Linux 2.4 / 2.6 Information Disclosure / Denial Of Service
