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Ubuntu 10.04 USN-985-1: High Risk from Local Exploit in Mountall Udev

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Calendar Grey September 8, 2010
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Critical Ubuntu Security Notice USN-987-1 highlights a profound vulnerability within mountall, making local system attacks a grave concern and allowing unauthorized command execution.
Alasdair MacGregor discovered that mountall created a udev rule filewith world-writable permissions

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security advisory critical local attack ubuntu arbitrary command mountall

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mountall vulnerability

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security advisory critical local attack ubuntu arbitrary command mountall

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