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Bug 279497 - Kernel: x86: fix buffer overflow in efi_init() (GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH)
Summary: Kernel: x86: fix buffer overflow in efi_init() (GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Kernel (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel...
Whiteboard: [linux <2.6.31]
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2009-07-28 18:18 UTC by Brayan Arraes (YacK)
Modified: 2013-09-15 18:48 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Runtime testing required: ---

Attachments
patch to fix bugs (patch,551 bytes, text/plain)
2009-07-28 18:21 UTC, Brayan Arraes (YacK) 		no flags Details
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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