Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2411-1
18th November, 2014
mountall vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 14.10
Summary
mountall could mount certain filesystems with the wrong permissions.
Software description
- mountall
– filesystem mounting tool
Details
Saurav Sengupta discovered that mountall incorrectly handled umask when
calling the mount utility, resulting in certain filesystems possibly being
mounted with incorrect permissions.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
- Ubuntu 14.10:
-
mountall
2.54ubuntu0.14.10.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.