Executive Summary

Summary
Title GParted vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-2471-1 First vendor Publication 2015-01-14
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2015-01-14
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 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 versions:

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
gparted 0.11.0-2ubuntu0.1

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2471-1
CVE-2014-7208

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/0.11.0-2ubuntu0.1

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2471-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-77 Improper Sanitization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

ExploitDB Exploits

id Description
2014-12-23 GParted 0.14.1 - OS Command Execution

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-01-15 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2471-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2015-01-16 13:25:03
  • Multiple Updates
2015-01-15 00:20:28
  • First insertion