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USN-2142-1: UDisks vulnerability

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USN-2142-1: UDisks vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
03/11/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/08/2014
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in udisks before 1.0.5 and 2.x before 2.1.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long mount point.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-udisks
  • ubuntu-upgrade-udisks2

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