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[USN-2142-1] UDisks vulnerability

Posted on 10 March 2014
Ubuntu Security

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2142-1
March 10, 2014

udisks, udisks2 vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 13.10
- Ubuntu 12.10
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

UDisks could be made to manipulate directories as the administrator.

Software Description:
- udisks: service to access and manipulate storage devices
- udisks2: service to access and manipulate storage devices

Details:

Florian Weimer discovered that UDisks incorrectly handled certain long pa=
th
names. A local attacker could use this issue to cause udisks to create
certain directory structures, possibly leading to privilege escalation.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 13.10:
udisks 1.0.4-8ubuntu1.1
udisks2 2.1.0-4ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 12.10:
udisks 1.0.4-6ubuntu0.1
udisks2 2.0.0-1ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
udisks 1.0.4-5ubuntu2.2

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make a=
ll
the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2142-1
CVE-2014-0004

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/1.0.4-8ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks2/2.1.0-4ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/1.0.4-6ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks2/2.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/1.0.4-5ubuntu2.2

 

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