[USN-985-1] mountall vulnerability
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-985-1 September 08, 2010
mountall vulnerability
CVE-2010-2961
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of
Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu.
The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the
following package versions:
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
mountall 2.15.2
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
Details follow:
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.
Updated packages for Ubuntu 10.04:
Source archives:
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/m/mountall/mountall_2.15.2.dsc
Size/MD5: 972 92e488f0e51ab3c20ddf537fdc92fd24
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/m/mountall/mountall_2.15.2.tar.gz
Size/MD5: 564582 036e6a108a9bc0c2155a7226ad5437c3
amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon):
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/m/mountall/mountall_2.15.2_amd64.deb
Size/MD5: 56016 76dc051afb8a20077f0c0b709369d6c0
i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD):
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/m/mountall/mountall_2.15.2_i386.deb
Size/MD5: 52384 42ebb3fa3f81ed1a08270d48a8f6b367
powerpc architecture (Apple Macintosh G3/G4/G5):
http://ports.ubuntu.com/pool/main/m/mountall/mountall_2.15.2_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5: 55780 cf51c1268b9b188150f9d2131882d8bb
sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC):
http://ports.ubuntu.com/pool/main/m/mountall/mountall_2.15.2_sparc.deb
Size/MD5: 56758 276c85acaf4feaa54c53615f0a572b8b
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