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Ubuntu: USN-3772-1 (CVE-2018-17336): UDisks vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-3772-1 (CVE-2018-17336): UDisks vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/22/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/02/2018
Modified
03/02/2020

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-udisks2

References

  • USN-3772-1
  • CVE-2018-17336

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