Use of Externally-Controlled Format String Affecting udisks2 package, versions <2.8.1-1
Threat Intelligence
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- published22 Sept 2018
- disclosed22 Sept 2018
Introduced: 22 Sep 2018
CVE-2018-17336 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable udisks2 to version 2.8.1-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream udisks2 package and not the udisks2 package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:unstable 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.