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

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Message-ID: <20100310191107.GO7017@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:11:07 -0700
From: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: CVE Request: DeviceKit privilege escalation via pluggable storage
 device labels

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

Thanks.

-- 
Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team

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