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Ubuntu 13.10 USN-2142-1 Moderate: UDisks Privilege Escalation Risk

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UDisks could be made to manipulate directories as the administrator.
=========================================================================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 path
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 all
the necessary changes.

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/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




Ubuntu 13.10 USN-2142-1 Moderate: UDisks Privilege Escalation Risk

ubuntu
Calendar Grey March 10, 2014
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The UDisks security flaw might enable local threats to alter directory structures with elevated privileges. Urgent patching is required.
UDisks could be made to manipulate directories as the administrator.

Summary

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 all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2142-1

CVE-2014-0004

Severity
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Critical

March 10, 2014

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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