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util-linux: information disclosure

Package(s):

util-linux

CVE #(s):

CVE-2007-0822

Created:

March 7, 2007

Updated:

March 7, 2007

Description:

Users can confuse util-linux by way of removable drives, leading to crashes and the possibility of information disclosure via the resulting core dumps.

Alerts:

Mandriva

MDKSA-2007:053

2006-03-06

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util-linux: information disclosure

Posted Mar 8, 2007 11:03 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

What sort of useful information would be exposed by *umount*? Sure it's setuid, but even so it doesn't read anything security-important, does it?

(It's still a bug, yes, but where's the security impact?)