High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Feb 27, 2025· Updated May 12, 2026
CVE-2025-21772
CVE-2025-21772
Description
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().
Affected products
1- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 4.4
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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