PT-2017-8647 · None+5 · Util-Linux+5

Christian Moch + 1 · Published 2016-07-14 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-5011

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions util-linux (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically memory consumption, by exploiting a crafted MSDOS partition table with an extended partition boot record at zero offset in the parse dos extended function.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1850

CESA-2016_2605

CVE-2016-5011

MGASA-2016-0256

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11282-1

RHSA-2016:2605

RHSA-2016_2605

SUSE-SU-2016:2764-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2954-1

SUSE-SU-2016_2764-1

SUSE-SU-2016_2954-1

SUSE-SU-2017:0553-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2699-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2700-1

SUSE-SU-2017_0553-1

USN-5478-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

Util-Linux

References · 60

• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2016-1850 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5478-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5011 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-5478-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2016-0256 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5011 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5011 · Security Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/11/2 · Patch
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=7164a1c3 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2954-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:0553-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5011 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2016:2764-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5011 · Security Note
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2605.html · Vendor Advisory