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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: 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 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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31 Oct 2026, 10:05 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2018-17336

core-osv · Original source

Published 22 Sept 2018, 16:29 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2018-17336
Complete source record
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