Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-2411-1

USN-2411-1: mountall vulnerability

Publication date

18 November 2014

Overview

mountall could mount certain filesystems with the wrong permissions.

Releases

14.10

Packages

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

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
14.10 utopic	mountall – 2.54ubuntu0.14.10.1

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References

CVE-2014-1421

CVE-2014-1421