USN-985-1: mountall vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• mountall - filesystem mounting tool

Details

Alasdair MacGregor discovered that mountall created a udev rule file
with world-writable permissions. A local attacker could exploit this
under certain conditions to cause udev to execute arbitrary commands as
the root user.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 10.04

• mountall - 2.15.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2010-2961