USN-4512-1

It was discovered that the umount bash completion script shipped in util-linux incorrectly handled certain mountpoints. If a local attacker were able to create arbitrary mountpoints, another user could be tricked into executing arbitrary code when attempting to run the umount command with bash completion.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / util-linux

Package

Name: util-linux
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/util-linux@2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.7?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.7

Affected versions

2.*

2.30.1-0ubuntu4

2.30.2-0.1ubuntu1

2.30.2-0.1ubuntu2

2.30.2-0.1ubuntu3

2.31.1-0.4ubuntu2

2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3

2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.1

2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.2

2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.3

2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.4

2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.5

2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.6

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "bsdutils",
            "binary_version": "1:2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.7"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "fdisk",
            "binary_version": "2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.7"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libblkid-dev",
            "binary_version": "2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.7"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libblkid1",
            "binary_version": "2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.7"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libfdisk-dev",
            "binary_version": "2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.7"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libfdisk1",
            "binary_version": "2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.7"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libmount-dev",
            "binary_version": "2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.7"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libmount1",
            "binary_version": "2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.7"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libsmartcols-dev",
            "binary_version": "2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.7"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libsmartcols1",
            "binary_version": "2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.7"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libuuid1",
            "binary_version": "2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.7"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "mount",
            "binary_version": "2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.7"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "rfkill",
            "binary_version": "2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.7"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "setpriv",
            "binary_version": "2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.7"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "util-linux",
            "binary_version": "2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.7"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "util-linux-locales",
            "binary_version": "2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.7"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "uuid-dev",
            "binary_version": "2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.7"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "uuid-runtime",
            "binary_version": "2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.7"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2018-7738",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "negligible",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}