Arbitrary Command Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package util-linux  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-UTILLINUX-669776
  • published31 Mar 2017
  • disclosed31 Mar 2017

Introduced: 31 Mar 2017

CVE-2014-9114  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

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

Blkid in util-linux before 2.26rc-1 allows local users to execute arbitrary code.