Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 : usb-creator vulnerability (USN-1127-1)

Evan Broder discovered that usb-creator did not properly enforce restrictions when performing privileged disk operations. A local attacker could use this flaw to perform certain disk operations, such as unmount arbitrary mountpoints. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding...

CVE-2011-1828

CVE-2011-1828 affects the usb-creator package (usb-creator-helper) prior to 0.2.28.3. The flaw stems from usb-creator not enforcing PolicyKit restrictions, enabling a local user to perform arbitrary unmount operations via the UnmountFile method in a dbus-send command. Impact is local privilege-re...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1127-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[Full-disclosure] [USN-1127-1] usb-creator vulnerability

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1127-1 May 02, 2011 usb-creator vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: -...