CVE-2010-3879

Publication date 3 December 2010

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

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.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
fuse 10.10 maverick
Fixed 2.8.4-1ubuntu1.1
10.04 LTS lucid
Fixed 2.8.1-1.1ubuntu2.2
9.10 karmic
Fixed 2.7.4-1.1ubuntu4.4
8.04 LTS hardy
Fixed 2.7.2-1ubuntu2.2
6.06 LTS dapper Ignored end of life
util-linux 10.10 maverick
Fixed 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.10.10.1
10.04 LTS lucid
Fixed 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.10.04.1
9.10 karmic
Fixed 2.16-1ubuntu5.1
8.04 LTS hardy
Fixed 2.13.1-5ubuntu3.1
6.06 LTS dapper Ignored end of life

Notes

mdeslaur

will also need to patch util-linux to get --no-canonicalize See novell bug for a bunch of commits, and new patches util-linux negligible (update only needed for fuse)

References

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