Executive Summary

Summary
Title initramfs-tools vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2153-1 First vendor Publication 2014-03-24
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2014-03-24
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
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Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

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Detail

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

- Ubuntu 12.10 - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

initramfs-tools used incorrect mount options.

Software Description: - initramfs-tools: tools for generating an initramfs

Details:

Kees Cook discovered that initramfs-tools incorrectly mounted /run without the noexec option, contrary to expected behaviour.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 12.10:
initramfs-tools 0.103ubuntu0.2.2

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
initramfs-tools 0.99ubuntu13.5

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2153-1
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1152744

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/0.103ubuntu0.2.2
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/0.99ubuntu13.5

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2153-1

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Date Informations
2014-03-26 13:21:35
  • Multiple Updates
2014-03-24 21:20:55
  • First insertion