Vulnerability Bulletins

DSA-3266 fuse - security update


System information

   
Affected software Debian

Description

Tavis Ormandy discovered that FUSE, a Filesystem in USErspace, does notscrub the environment before executing mount or umount with elevatedprivileges. A local user can take advantage of this flaw to overwritearbitrary files and gain elevated privileges by accessing debuggingfeatures via the environment that would not normally be safe forunprivileged users.

More info:

https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3266

Standar resources

Property Value
CVE CVE-2015-3202 and DSA-3266.

Version history

Version Comments Date
1.0 Advisory issued 2015-05-23
Ministerio de Defensa
CNI
CCN
CCN-CERT