Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package util-linux  (opens in a new tab)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-670832
  • published21 Jan 2014
  • disclosed21 Jan 2014

Introduced: 21 Jan 2014

CVE-2013-0157  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (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.

(a) mount and (b) umount in util-linux 2.14.1, 2.17.2, and probably other versions allow local users to determine the existence of restricted directories by (1) using the --guess-fstype command-line option or (2) attempting to mount a non-existent device, which generates different error messages depending on whether the directory exists.