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USN-1927-1: libimobiledevice vulnerability

14 August 2013

libimobiledevice could be made to overwrite files as the administrator, or access device keys.

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Releases

Packages

  • libimobiledevice - Library for communicating with iPhone and iPod Touch devices

Details

Paul Collins discovered that libimobiledevice incorrectly handled temporary
files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite
arbitrary files and access device keys. In the default Ubuntu installation,
this issue should be mitigated by the Yama link restrictions.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 13.04
Ubuntu 12.10

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

References

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