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Summary

The boot catalog pointer is a DWord, but we previously populated it via cd9660_bothendian_dword which overwrote four unused bytes following it. See El Torito 1.0 (1995) Figure 7 for details.

PR: 203531
Reported by: Coverity Scan
Reported by: Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net>
CID: 977470
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

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emaste created this revision.

A link to the El Torito doc is available from https://wiki.osdev.org/El-Torito

This matches my reading of the spec; single LE DWORD.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Mar 23 2023, 9:33 PM
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