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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for fuse (ALAS-2015-558) (CVE-2015-3202)

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Amazon Linux AMI: Security patch for fuse (ALAS-2015-558) (CVE-2015-3202)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/02/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/09/2015
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

fusermount in FUSE before 2.9.3-15 does not properly clear the environment before invoking (1) mount or (2) umount as root, which allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a crafted LIBMOUNT_MTAB environment variable that is used by mount's debugging feature.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-fuse
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-fuse-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-fuse-devel
  • amazon-linux-upgrade-fuse-libs

References

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