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Debian Oldstable: DSA-2872-1 Moderate: Udisks Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey March 10, 2014
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Uncover the vulnerability present in udisks that may enable privilege escalation. Detailed information on the security patch within.
Florian Weimer discovered a buffer overflow in udisks's mount path parsing code which may result in privilege escalation
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Summary

Florian Weimer discovered a buffer overflow in udisks's mount path
parsing code which may result in privilege escalation.

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.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



Package: udisks
CVE ID: CVE-2014-0004

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