1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-2142-1

USN-2142-1: UDisks vulnerability

Publication date

10 March 2014

Overview

UDisks could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.

Releases

Packages

  • 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 crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the
vulnerability to a denial of service.

Florian Weimer discovered that UDisks incorrectly handled certain long path
names. A local attacker could use this issue to cause udisks to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the
vulnerability to a denial of service.

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
13.10 saucy udisks2 –  2.1.0-4ubuntu0.1
udisks –  1.0.4-8ubuntu1.1
12.10 quantal udisks2 –  2.0.0-1ubuntu1.1
udisks –  1.0.4-6ubuntu0.1
12.04 precise udisks –  1.0.4-5ubuntu2.2

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