USN-2471-1: GParted vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2471-1

14th January, 2015

gparted vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

GParted could be made to run programs as an administrator.

Software description

  • gparted
    – GNOME partition editor

Details

Wolfgang Ettlinger discovered that GParted incorrectly filtered shell
metacharacters when running external commands. A local attacker could use
this issue with a crafted filesystem label to run arbitrary commands as the
administrator.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
gparted

0.11.0-2ubuntu0.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

References

CVE-2014-7208

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