Users of mountall please be advised of a vulnerability that has been identified.
To view this vulnerability, possible remedies, and others please check out the Security Advisories at Critical Watch (http://criticalwatch.com/support/security-advisories.aspx)
Amplify’d from www.criticalwatch.com
USN-985-1: [USN-985-1] mountall vulnerability
Details follow:
Alasdair MacGregor discovered that mountall created a udev rule file
with world-writable permissions. A local attacker could exploit this
under certain conditions to cause udev to execute arbitrary commands as
the root user.
Read more at www.criticalwatch.com
See this Amp at http://bit.ly/ausLNi
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