# CVE-2018-17336: UDisks 2.8.0 has a format string vulnerability in udisks\_log in udiskslogging.c, allowing attackers to obtain sensitive information (stack c

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-09-22 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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.

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## References

- https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks/issues/578
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3772-1/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2178

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