USN-985-1: mountall vulnerability
Publication date
8 September 2010
Overview
Local root escalation via writable udev rules.
Releases
Packages
- mountall - filesystem mounting tool
Details
Alasdair MacGregor discovered that mountall created a udev rule file
with world-writable permissions. A local attacker could exploit this
under certain conditions to cause udev to execute arbitrary commands as
the root user.
Alasdair MacGregor discovered that mountall created a udev rule file
with world-writable permissions. A local attacker could exploit this
under certain conditions to cause udev to execute arbitrary commands as
the root user.
Update instructions
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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