EUVD-2016-5970

Malware in sbrugna...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5011

The parsedosextended function in partitions/dos.c in the libblkid library in util-linux allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted MSDOS partition table with an extended partition boot record at zero offset...

Updated util-linux packages fix security vulnerability

The util-linux libblkid is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack during MSDOS partition table parsing, in the extended partition boot record EBR. If the next EBR starts at relative offset 0, parsedosextended will loop until running out of memory. An attacker could install a specially crafted...