Use of Externally-Controlled Format String Affecting libudisks2-devel package, versions <0:2.7.3-9.amzn2.0.1
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- published27 Sept 2021
- disclosed22 Sept 2018
Introduced: 22 Sep 2018
CVE-2018-17336 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 libudisks2-devel to version 0:2.7.3-9.amzn2.0.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2019-1377.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libudisks2-devel package and not the libudisks2-devel package as distributed by Amazon-Linux.
See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.
UDisks 2.8.0 has a format string vulnerability in udisks_log in udiskslogging.c, allowing attackers to obtain sensitive information (stack contents), cause a denial of service (memory corruption), or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed filesystem label, as demonstrated by %d or %n substrings.