Red Hat alert RHSA-2024:3486-01 (gdisk)

An update for gdisk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6
Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a
detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE
link(s) in the References section.

The gdisk packages provide the gdisk partitioning utility for GUID Partition
Table (GPT) disks. The utility features a command-line interface similar to
fdisk, direct manipulation of partition table structures, recovery tools to
deal
with corrupt partition tables, and the ability to convert Master Boot Record
(MBR) disks to the GPT format.

Security Fix(es):

* gdisk: possible out-of-bounds-write in LoadPartitionTable of gpt.cc
(CVE-2020-0256)

* gdisk: possible out-of-bounds-write in ReadLogicalParts of basicmbr.cc
(CVE-2021-0308)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s)
listed in the References section.

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