National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-3879

Overview

FUSE, possibly 2.8.5 and earlier, allows local users to create mtab entries with arbitrary pathnames, and consequently unmount any filesystem, via a symlink attack on the parent directory of the mountpoint of a FUSE filesystem, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0789.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651183

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651183

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.halfdog.net/Security/FuseTimerace/

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://www.halfdog.net/Security/FuseTimerace/

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602333

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602333

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651598

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651598

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/670622

Hyperlink:https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/670622

External Source: XF

Name: fuse-fusermount-tool-dos(62986)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/62986

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0302

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0302

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2011-0181

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0181

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1045-2

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1045-2

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1045-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1045-1

External Source: BID

Name: 44623

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44623

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 42965

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/42965

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 42961

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/42961

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 70520

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/70520

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20101105 Re: CVE request: fuse

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/05/2

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20101104 CVE request: fuse

Hyperlink:http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/04/8

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20101102 fusermount: Unmount any filesystem

Hyperlink:http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2010-November/077247.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2011-0854

Hyperlink:http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053792.html