oss-security - Re: CVE Request: DeviceKit privilege escalation via pluggable storage device labels

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Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 11:56:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request: DeviceKit privilege escalation via
 pluggable storage device labels

----- "Vincent Danen" <vdanen@...hat.com> wrote:

> This is quite old, but I don't think a CVE name has ever been assigned to
> it.  The issue is with how DeviceKit handled labels for pluggable storage
> devices.  A local unprivileged user could use this flaw to elevate
> privileges.  It has been corrected upstream.
> 
> References:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523178
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/DeviceKit/DeviceKit-disks/commit/?id=62f883c7d38e75d0669c162529062a1e81d00da2
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23235
> 

Please use CVE-2010-0746

Thanks

-- 
    JB

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