UDisks vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 13.10
• Ubuntu 12.10
• Ubuntu 12.04

Packages

• udisks - service to access and manipulate storage devices
• udisks2 - service to access and manipulate storage devices

Details

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.