Buffer Overflow in blktrace (Block IO Tracing) 1.2.0

CVE-2018-10689 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

blktrace (aka Block IO Tracing) 1.2.0, as used with the Linux kernel and Android, has a buffer overflow in the dev_map_read function in btt/devmap.c because the device and devno arrays are too small, as demonstrated by an invalid free when using the btt program with a crafted file.

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