Arbitrary Command Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package gparted  (opens in a new tab)


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Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
1.11% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-GPARTED-629984
  • published19 Dec 2014
  • disclosed19 Dec 2014

Introduced: 19 Dec 2014

CVE-2014-7208  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gparted package and not the gparted package as distributed by Ubuntu.

GParted before 0.15.0 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges via shell metacharacters in a crafted filesystem label.