CVE-2010-3879

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.8
Exploit probability—
ProductLibfuse
PublishedJan 22, 2011
First seenJan 22, 2011

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
libfuse_project libfusev ≤ 2.8.5—

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