Posted by Timo Warns on Apr 13
PRE-CERT Security Advisory
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* Advisory: PRE-SA-2011-03
* Released on: 13 Apr 2011
* Last updated on: 13 Apr 2011
* Affected product: Linux Kernel 2.4 and 2.6
* Impact: denial-of-service
* Origin: storage devices
* Credit: Timo Warns (PRESENSE Technologies GmbH)
* CVE Identifier: CVE-2011-1577
Summary
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The Linux kernel contains a vulnerability that may lead to
a denial-of-service due to corrupted partition…
Source: [PRE-SA-2011-03] Denial-of-service vulnerability in EFI partition handling code of the Linux kernel