ubuntu-cve-2018-17336
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2018-09-22 00:00
Modified
2026-04-22 07:38
Summary
Details

UDisks 2.8.0 has a format string vulnerability in udisks_log in udiskslogging.c, allowing attackers to obtain sensitive information (stack contents), cause a denial of service (memory corruption), or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed filesystem label, as demonstrated by %d or %n substrings.

Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "gir1.2-udisks-2.0",
            "binary_version": "2.7.6-3ubuntu0.2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libudisks2-0",
            "binary_version": "2.7.6-3ubuntu0.2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "udisks2",
            "binary_version": "2.7.6-3ubuntu0.2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "udisks2-btrfs",
            "binary_version": "2.7.6-3ubuntu0.2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "udisks2-lvm2",
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          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS",
        "name": "udisks2",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/udisks2@2.7.6-3ubuntu0.2?arch=source\u0026distro=bionic"
      },
      "ranges": [
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          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.7.6-3ubuntu0.2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
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        "2.6.5-2ubuntu3",
        "2.7.6-2ubuntu4",
        "2.7.6-2ubuntu6",
        "2.7.6-3",
        "2.7.6-3ubuntu0.1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "UDisks 2.8.0 has a format string vulnerability in udisks_log in udiskslogging.c, allowing attackers to obtain sensitive information (stack contents), cause a denial of service (memory corruption), or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed filesystem label, as demonstrated by %d or %n substrings.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2018-17336",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:38:44Z",
  "published": "2018-09-22T00:00:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-17336"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3772-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17336"
    }
  ],
  "related": [
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  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2018-17336"
  ]
}



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