kernel: block: passing disk names as format strings

Format string vulnerability in the registerdisk function in block/genhd.c in the Linux kernel through 3.9.4 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging root access and writing format string specifiers to /sys/module/mdmod/parameters/newarray in order to create a crafted /dev/md device nam...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-2851

Format string vulnerability in the registerdisk function in block/genhd.c in the Linux kernel through 3.9.4 allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging root access and writing format string specifiers to /sys/module/mdmod/parameters/newarray in order to create a crafted /dev/md device nam...