=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2411-1
November 18, 2014

mountall vulnerability
=========================================================================
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.10

Summary:

mountall could mount certain filesystems with the wrong permissions.

Software Description:
- mountall: filesystem mounting tool

Details:

Saurav Sengupta discovered that mountall incorrectly handled umask when
calling the mount utility, resulting in certain filesystems possibly being
mounted with incorrect permissions.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 14.10:
  mountall                        2.54ubuntu0.14.10.1

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2411-1
  CVE-2014-1421

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/2.54ubuntu0.14.10.1


Ubuntu 2411-1: mountall vulnerability

November 18, 2014
mountall could mount certain filesystems with the wrong permissions.

Summary

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 14.10: mountall 2.54ubuntu0.14.10.1 After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2411-1

CVE-2014-1421

Severity
November 18, 2014

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mountall/2.54ubuntu0.14.10.1

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