CVE-2010-2961

Publication date 8 September 2010

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

High

Why this priority?

mountall.c in mountall before 2.15.2 uses 0666 permissions for the root.rules file, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying this file.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package Ubuntu Release Status
mountall 10.04 LTS lucid
Fixed 2.15.2
9.10 karmic
Not affected
9.04 jaunty Not in release
8.04 LTS hardy Not in release
6.06 LTS dapper Not in release

Notes

kees

luckily, udev doesn’t use inotify on this directory at boot time, so udev needs to be reloaded before this is really ugly.

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-985-1
    • mountall vulnerability
    • 8 September 2010

Other references