CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-21772

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.22%

13th percentile - higher than 13% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability related to the handling of bogus partition tables has been fixed in the Linux kernel. Issues included improper sector size and lack of proper NUL termination in the partition table.

Risk Assessment

Improper management of partition tables may lead to out-of-bounds memory access, posing a risk of system crashes or potential data leaks.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to the latest version to eliminate this vulnerability and ensure proper system operation.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: partitions: mac: fix handling of bogus partition table Fix several issues in partition probing: - The bailout for a bad partoffset must use put_dev_sector(), since the preceding read_part_sector() succeeded. - If the partition table claims a silly sector size like 0xfff bytes (which results in partition table entries straddling sector boundaries), bail out instead of accessing out-of-bounds memory. - We must not assume that the partition table contains proper NUL termination - use strnlen() and strncmp() instead of strlen() and strcmp().

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