Executive Summary

Summary
Title mountall vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2411-1 First vendor Publication 2014-11-18
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2014-11-18
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
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

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.2 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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 versions:

Ubuntu 14.10:
mountall 2.54ubuntu0.14.10.1

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2411-1
CVE-2014-1421

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/2.54ubuntu0.14.10.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2411-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28586
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28586
Title: USN-2411-1 -- mountall vulnerability
Description: Saurav Sengupta discovered that mountall incorrectly handled umask when calling the mount utility, resulting in certain filesystems possibly being mounted with incorrect permissions.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): USN-2411-1
CVE-2014-1421
Version: 5
Platform(s): Ubuntu 14.10
Product(s): mountall
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2014-11-19 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2411-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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2014-11-26 21:29:58
  • Multiple Updates
2014-11-25 21:30:46
  • Multiple Updates
2014-11-21 13:25:16
  • Multiple Updates
2014-11-18 17:22:44
  • First insertion