Summary
Check the version of gparted
Solution
Please Install the Updated Packages.
Insight
Wolfgang Ettlinger discovered that GParted
incorrectly filtered shell metacharacters when running external commands. A local attacker could use this issue with a crafted filesystem label to run arbitrary commands as the administrator.
Affected
gparted on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Detection
Get the installed version with the help of
detect NVT and check if the version is vulnerable or not.
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2014-7208 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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