National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-0542

Overview

fusermount in fuse 2.8.5 and earlier does not perform a chdir to / before performing a mount or umount, which allows local users to unmount arbitrary directories via unspecified vectors.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110208 Re: CVE request: fuse

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/08/4

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110203 Re: CVE request: fuse

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/03/5

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110201 CVE request: fuse

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/02/2

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://fuse.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=fuse/fuse;a=commit;h=1e7607ff89c65b005f69e27aeb1649d624099873

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://fuse.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=fuse/fuse;a=commit;h=1e7607ff89c65b005f69e27aeb1649d624099873