Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: util-linux security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for util-linux is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

CVE-2016-5011

It was found that util-linux's libblkid library did not properly handle Extended Boot Record EBR partitions when reading MS-DOS partition tables. An attacker with physical USB access to a protected machine could insert a storage device with a specially crafted partition table that could, for...