vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2018-17336: ELSA-2019-2178: udisks2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (MODERATE)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 22, 2018
Added
Jul 21, 2020
Modified
Dec 3, 2025

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.
An uncontrolled format string vulnerability has been discovered in udisks when it mounts a filesystem with a malformed label. A local attacker may use this flaw to leak memory, make the udisks service crash, or cause other unspecified effects.

Solutions

oracle-linux-upgrade-libudisks2oracle-linux-upgrade-libudisks2-develoracle-linux-upgrade-udisks2oracle-linux-upgrade-udisks2-iscsioracle-linux-upgrade-udisks2-lsmoracle-linux-upgrade-udisks2-lvm2
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