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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2142-1
March 10, 2014
udisks, udisks2 vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
– Ubuntu 13.10
– Ubuntu 12.10
– Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Summary:
UDisks could be made to manipulate directories as the administrator.
Software Description:
– udisks: service to access and manipulate storage devices
– udisks2: service to access and manipulate storage devices
Details:
Florian Weimer discovered that UDisks incorrectly handled certain long path
names. A local attacker could use this issue to cause udisks to create
certain directory structures, possibly leading to privilege escalation.
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 13.10:
udisks 1.0.4-8ubuntu1.1
udisks2 2.1.0-4ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu 12.10:
udisks 1.0.4-6ubuntu0.1
udisks2 2.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
udisks 1.0.4-5ubuntu2.2
After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all
the necessary changes.
References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2142-1
CVE-2014-0004
Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/1.0.4-8ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks2/2.1.0-4ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/1.0.4-6ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks2/2.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/1.0.4-5ubuntu2.2
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