openSUSE Security Update: udisks DBUS root service allows to load arbitrary LKMs (CVE-2010-4661) ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2011:0414-1 Rating: important References: #653900 Cross-References: CVE-2010-4661 Affected Products: openSUSE 11.4 openSUSE 11.3 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available. Description: This update of udisks improves input validation. Before it was possible to load arbitrary LKMs. (CVE-2010-4661: CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P): unknown (unknown) ) Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 11.4: zypper in -t patch udisks-4441 - openSUSE 11.3: zypper in -t patch udisks-4445 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 11.4 (i586 x86_64): udisks-1.0.2-3.4.1 udisks-devel-1.0.2-3.4.1 - openSUSE 11.3 (i586 x86_64): udisks-1.0.1-2.3.1 udisks-devel-1.0.1-2.3.1 References: http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4661.html https://bugzilla.novell.com/653900