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Red Hat: CVE-2018-17336: Moderate: udisks2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-2019:2178)

Name: Red Hat: CVE-2018-17336: Moderate: udisks2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-2019:2178)
Creator: Red Hat
Published: 2018-09-22T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, Red Hat, 2018, 17336, Moderate, redhat-upgrade-libudisks2, redhat-upgrade-libudisks2-devel, redhat-upgrade-udisks2, redhat-upgrade-udisks2-debuginfo, redhat-upgrade-udisks2-iscsi, redhat-upgrade-udisks2-lsm, redhat-upgrade-udisks2-lvm2, Severity 5

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Published

Sep 22, 2018

Added

Aug 7, 2019

Modified

Feb 19, 2026

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.

Solutions

redhat-upgrade-libudisks2redhat-upgrade-libudisks2-develredhat-upgrade-udisks2redhat-upgrade-udisks2-debuginforedhat-upgrade-udisks2-iscsiredhat-upgrade-udisks2-lsmredhat-upgrade-udisks2-lvm2

References

NVD-CVE-2018-17336
REDHAT-RHSA-2019:2178

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