CVE-2018-17336

HIGH

UDisks 2.8.0 - Format String Vulnerability via Filesystem Label

Title source: llm

Description

UDisks 2.8.0 has a format string vulnerability in udisks_log in udiskslogging.c, allowing attackers to obtain sensitive information (stack contents), cause a denial of service (memory corruption), or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed filesystem label, as demonstrated by %d or %n substrings.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks/issues/578

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3772-1/

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2178

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0062

EPSS Percentile 44.9%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-134

Status published

Products (2)

canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04

freedesktop/udisks 2.8.0

Published Sep 22, 2018

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026