CVE-2018-17336

Public Exploit

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.

Category

7.8
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 3.0 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 0.25%
Vendor Advisory ubuntu.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks/issues/578 exploit third party advisory patch
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3772-1/ third party advisory vendor advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2178 vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2018-17336?
CVE-2018-17336 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2018-17336?
To fix CVE-2018-17336, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2018-17336 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2018-17336 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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