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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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.
    (CVE-2018-17336)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2019-2178 advisory.

    - CVE-2018-17336: Fix format string vulnerability in udisks_log (#1637427)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05, has udisks2 packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability:

  - 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.
    (CVE-2018-17336)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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.(CVE-2018-17336)

An uncontrolled format string vulnerability has been discovered in udisks when it mounts a filesystem with a malformed label. A local attacker may use this flaw to leak memory, make the udisks service crash, or cause other unspecified effects.(CVE-2018-17336)

According to the version of the udisks2 packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - 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.(CVE-2018-17336)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04, has udisks2 packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability:

  - 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.
    (CVE-2018-17336)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

An update for udisks2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The Udisks project provides a daemon, tools, and libraries to access and manipulate disks, storage devices, and technologies.

Security Fix(es) :

* udisks: Format string vulnerability in udisks_log in udiskslogging.c (CVE-2018-17336)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes :

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Security Fix(es) :

  - udisks: Format string vulnerability in udisks_log in     udiskslogging.c (CVE-2018-17336)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2178 advisory.

    The Udisks project provides a daemon, tools, and libraries to access and manipulate disks, storage     devices, and technologies.

    Security Fix(es):

    * udisks: Format string vulnerability in udisks_log in udiskslogging.c (CVE-2018-17336)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Additional Changes:

    For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This update for udisks2 fixes the following issues :

Following security issues was fixed :

  - CVE-2018-17336: A format string vulnerability in     udisks_log (bsc#1109406)

Following non-security issues were fixed :

  - strip trailing newline from sysfs raid level information     (bsc#1091274)

  - Fix watcher error for non-redundant raid devices.
    (bsc#1091274)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Security fix for CVE-2018-17336

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for udisks2 fixes the following issues :

Following security issues was fixed :

CVE-2018-17336: A format string vulnerability in udisks_log (bsc#1109406)

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3772-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that UDisks incorrectly handled format strings when logging. A local attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or obtain sensitive information.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
222317	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-17336	Nessus	Misc.	high
180797	Oracle Linux 7 : udisks2 (ELSA-2019-2178)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
132510	NewStart CGSL CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05 : udisks2 Vulnerability (NS-SA-2019-0248)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	high
132265	Amazon Linux 2 : udisks2 (ALAS-2019-1377)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
130655	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : udisks2 (EulerOS-SA-2019-2193)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
129903	NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : udisks2 Vulnerability (NS-SA-2019-0201)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	high
128371	CentOS 7 : udisks2 (CESA-2019:2178)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
128267	Scientific Linux Security Update : udisks2 on SL7.x x86_64 (20190806)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	high
127692	RHEL 7 : udisks2 (RHSA-2019:2178)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
123349	openSUSE Security Update : udisks2 (openSUSE-2019-834)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
120893	Fedora 29 : udisks2 (2018-f0ce9a3a35)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
120541	Fedora 28 : udisks2 (2018-77431ab417)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
120137	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : udisks2 (SUSE-SU-2018:3278-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
118383	openSUSE Security Update : udisks2 (openSUSE-2018-1247)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
117926	Fedora 27 : udisks2 (2018-3d187b1a5b)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
117806	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : UDisks vulnerability (USN-3772-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high

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