suse · CVE-2018-7738

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Priority: high Published: 2021-05-30 14:11:38 UTC Updated: 2026-04-17 15:30:05 UTC

View at Official suse advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2018-7738 severity important: SUSE including 541 source package names (0.9.1:libblkid1-2.29.2-3.8.1, 0.9.1:libfdisk1-2.29.2-3.8.1, …), 1021 product×package rows across 97 product lines (Container caasp/v4/cilium, Container caasp/v4/cilium-operator, … (97 product lines)): Fixed 740, Known Affected 231, Known Not Affected 50.

Description:

In util-linux before 2.32-rc1, bash-completion/umount allows local users to gain privileges by embedding shell commands in a mountpoint name, which is mishandled during a umount command (within Bash) by a different user, as demonstrated by logging in as root and entering umount followed by a tab character for autocompletion.

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