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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
Sep 22, 2018
Added
Oct 2, 2018
Modified
Mar 27, 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.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-udisks2
Title
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