In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
udf: fix partition descriptor append bookkeeping
Mounting a crafted UDF image with repeated partition descriptors can trigger a heap out-of-bounds write in partdescsloc[].
handlepartitiondescriptor() deduplicates entries by partition number, but appended slots never record partnum. As a result duplicate Partition Descriptors are appended repeatedly and numpartdescs keeps growing.
Once the table is full, the growth path still sizes the allocation from partnum even though inserts are indexed by numpartdescs. If partnum is already aligned to PARTDESCALLOC_STEP, ALIGN(partnum, step) can keep the old capacity and the next append writes past the end of the table.
Store partnum in the appended slot and size growth from the next append count so deduplication and capacity tracking follow the same model.
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