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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-17336: Security patch for udisks2 (ALAS-2019-1377)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-17336: Security patch for udisks2 (ALAS-2019-1377)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/22/2018
Created
05/08/2020
Added
04/27/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

UDisks 2.8.0 has a format string vulnerability in udisks_log in udiskslogging.c, allowing attackers to obtain sensitive information (stack contents), cause a denial of service (memory corruption), or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed filesystem label, as demonstrated by %d or %n substrings.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libudisks2
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-libudisks2-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-udisks2
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-udisks2-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-udisks2-iscsi
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-udisks2-lsm
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-udisks2-lvm2

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