CVE-2016-5011

medium

Published 2017-04-11 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

4.6

CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.6

Description

The parse_dos_extended 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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

46%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
rhel	7.0	affected
rhel	7.3	affected
rhel	7.4	affected
rhel	7.5	affected
rhel	7.6	affected
rhel	7.7	affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2.28.1-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2.28.1-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`2.28.1-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`2.28.1-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2.28.1-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
kernel	util-linux	`{"endIncluding":"2.28"}`
ibm	powerkvm	`2.1`
ibm	powerkvm	`3.1`
ibm	power_hardware_management_console	`8.8.6.0`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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