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Ubuntu 14.10 USN-2411-1 Critical: mountall Permission Issue

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Calendar Grey November 18, 2014
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It is essential to update your system promptly to resolve the mountall vulnerability on Ubuntu 14.10 that results in improper filesystem access permissions.
mountall could mount certain filesystems with the wrong permissions.

Summary

mountall could mount certain filesystems with the wrong permissions.

Software Description:

- mountall: filesystem mounting tool

Details:

Saurav Sengupta discovered that mountall incorrectly handled umask when

calling the mount utility, resulting in certain filesystems possibly being

mounted with incorrect permissions.

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.10:
  mountall                        2.54ubuntu0.14.10.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2411-1

CVE-2014-1421

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November 18, 2014

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/2.54ubuntu0.14.10.1

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