ALAS2-2019-1377

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-17336  

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.(CVE-2018-17336) An uncontrolled format string vulnerability has been discovered in udisks when it mounts a filesystem with a malformed label. A local attacker may use this flaw to leak memory, make the udisks service crash, or cause other unspecified effects.(CVE-2018-17336)

ALAS2-2019-1377


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1377
Advisory Release Date: 2019-12-13 19:43 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-12-18 01:23 Pacific
Severity: Medium
References: CVE-2018-17336 

Issue Overview:

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.(CVE-2018-17336)

An uncontrolled format string vulnerability has been discovered in udisks when it mounts a filesystem with a malformed label. A local attacker may use this flaw to leak memory, make the udisks service crash, or cause other unspecified effects.(CVE-2018-17336)


Affected Packages:

udisks2


Issue Correction:
Run yum update udisks2 to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    udisks2-2.7.3-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    libudisks2-2.7.3-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    udisks2-iscsi-2.7.3-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    udisks2-lvm2-2.7.3-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    udisks2-lsm-2.7.3-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    libudisks2-devel-2.7.3-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    udisks2-debuginfo-2.7.3-9.amzn2.0.1.aarch64

i686:
    udisks2-2.7.3-9.amzn2.0.1.i686
    libudisks2-2.7.3-9.amzn2.0.1.i686
    udisks2-iscsi-2.7.3-9.amzn2.0.1.i686
    udisks2-lvm2-2.7.3-9.amzn2.0.1.i686
    udisks2-lsm-2.7.3-9.amzn2.0.1.i686
    libudisks2-devel-2.7.3-9.amzn2.0.1.i686
    udisks2-debuginfo-2.7.3-9.amzn2.0.1.i686

src:
    udisks2-2.7.3-9.amzn2.0.1.src

x86_64:
    udisks2-2.7.3-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    libudisks2-2.7.3-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    udisks2-iscsi-2.7.3-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    udisks2-lvm2-2.7.3-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    udisks2-lsm-2.7.3-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    libudisks2-devel-2.7.3-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    udisks2-debuginfo-2.7.3-9.amzn2.0.1.x86_64