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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2872-1 (udisks - several vulnerabilities)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Debian Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
6.9
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
10 years ago
Modified
Modified
2 years ago
Summary
Florian Weimer discovered a buffer overflow in udisks's mount path parsing code which may result in privilege escalation.
Affected Software
Affected Software
udisks on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1+git20100614-3squeeze1. For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.4-7wheezy1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.5-1. We recommend that you upgrade your udisks packages.