Ubuntu Security Update USN-4512-1: util-linux vulnerability

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It was discovered that the umount bash completion script shipped in util-linux incorrectly handled certain mountpoints. If a local attacker were able to create arbitrary mountpoints, another user could be tricked into executing arbitrary code when attempting to run the umount command with bash completion.

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