Vigil@nce - gdisk: buffer overflow via LoadPartitionTable
April 2021 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian, Android OS.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: administrator access/rights, privileged
access/rights, denial of service on server, denial of service on
service.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 08/02/2021.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a buffer overflow via LoadPartitionTable()
of gdisk, in order to trigger a denial of service, and possibly to
run code.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/gdisk-buffer-overflow-via-LoadPartitionTable-34503