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Bug 279497

Summary: Kernel: x86: fix buffer overflow in efi_init() (GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH)
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Brayan Arraes (YacK) <brayan>
Component: KernelAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: hardened-kernel+disabled, kernel
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fdb8a42742ac95606668f73481dfb2f760658fdd
Whiteboard: [linux <2.6.31]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments:
Description Flags
patch to fix bugs none

Description Brayan Arraes (YacK) 2009-07-28 18:18:27 UTC 
If the vendor name (from c16) can be longer than 100 bytes (or missing a
terminating null), then the null is writen past the end of vendor[].

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Brayan Arraes (YacK) 2009-07-28 18:21:38 UTC 
Created attachment 199465 [details]
patch to fix bugs