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TITLE:
nilfs-utils Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA36008

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36008/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in nilfs-utils, which can be
exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to "mkfs.nilfs2" not properly
sanitising input passed via the device string command line option
before using it in a call to "system()", and by default being
installed with the setuid bit set. This can be exploited to execute
arbitrary commands with escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to  2.0.14.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.0.14.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Eric Sandeen and Steve Grubb.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.nilfs.org/en/
http://www.nilfs.org/git/?p=nilfs2-utils.git;a=commitdiff;h=d807e1c968c1f288486fb7d6f817434838fc12f7
http://www.nilfs.org/git/?p=nilfs2-utils.git;a=commitdiff;h=5c95a57102e23e6982467cbe23e922450d3f38ed
http://www.nilfs.org/git/?p=nilfs2-utils.git;a=commitdiff;h=a5cb60e624e4863c8d6feaf2ea8791abb48d6f15

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