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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.10 : udisks, udisks2 vulnerability (USN-2142-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 72925

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

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.

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Solution

Update the affected udisks and / or udisks2 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2142-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 72925

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2142-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/11/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:udisks2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:udisks, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/10/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/11/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-0004

BID: 66081

USN: 2142-1