Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in DeviceKit-disks in DeviceKit, as used in Fedora 11 and 12 and possibly other operating systems, allows local users to gain privileges via .. (dot dot) sequences in the label for a pluggable storage device.
References
- https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23235
- http://stealth.openwall.net/xSports/devshit.pl
- [oss-security] 20100401 Re: CVE Request: DeviceKit privilege escalation via pluggable storage device labels mailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523178
- http://xorl.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/cve-2010-0746-devicekit-local-privilege-escalation/