UDisks could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.
Florian Weimer discovered that UDisks incorrectly handled certain long path names. A local attacker could use this issue to cause udisks to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the vulnerability to a denial of service.
10 March 2014
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
UDisks could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator.
Florian Weimer discovered that UDisks incorrectly handled certain long path names. A local attacker could use this issue to cause udisks to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the vulnerability to a denial of service.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.
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