Debian DSA-2872-1 : udisks - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72912

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

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

Solution

Upgrade the udisks packages.

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72912

File Name: debian_DSA-2872.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/11/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:udisks, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 3/10/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0004

DSA: 2872

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