============================================================================ Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2142-1 March 10, 2014 udisks, udisks2 vulnerability ============================================================================ A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 13.10 - Ubuntu 12.10 - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary: UDisks could be made to manipulate directories as the administrator. Software Description: - udisks: service to access and manipulate storage devices - udisks2: service to access and manipulate storage devices Details: Florian Weimer discovered that UDisks incorrectly handled certain long path names. A local attacker could use this issue to cause udisks to create certain directory structures, possibly leading to privilege escalation. Update instructions: The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 13.10: udisks 1.0.4-8ubuntu1.1 udisks2 2.1.0-4ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 12.10: udisks 1.0.4-6ubuntu0.1 udisks2 2.0.0-1ubuntu1.1 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: udisks 1.0.4-5ubuntu2.2 After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes. References: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2142-1 CVE-2014-0004 Package Information: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/1.0.4-8ubuntu1.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks2/2.1.0-4ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/1.0.4-6ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks2/2.0.0-1ubuntu1.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/1.0.4-5ubuntu2.2