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udisks: loads arbitrary LKMs

Package(s):udisks CVE #(s):CVE-2010-4661
Created:April 29, 2011 Updated:August 30, 2012
Description: From the openSUSE advisory:

This update of udisks improves input validation. Before it was possible to load arbitrary LKMs.

Alerts:
SUSE SUSE-SR:2011:008 2011-05-03
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2011:0414-1 2011-04-29
Mageia MGASA-2012-0234 2012-08-23
Mageia MGASA-2012-0234-2 2012-08-30
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