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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2471-1

Posted on 15 January 2015
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2471-1
January 14, 2015

gparted vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

GParted could be made to run programs as an administrator.

Software Description:
- gparted: GNOME partition editor

Details:

Wolfgang Ettlinger discovered that GParted incorrectly filtered shell
metacharacters when running external commands. A local attacker could use
this issue with a crafted filesystem label to run arbitrary commands as the
administrator.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
gparted 0.11.0-2ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2471-1
CVE-2014-7208

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/0.11.0-2ubuntu0.1

 

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