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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2015-3202: FUSE: incorrect filtering of environment variables leading toprivilege escalation

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2015-3202: FUSE: incorrect filtering of environment variables leading toprivilege escalation

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/02/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
06/15/2020

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)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-fs-fuse
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-fs-ntfs3g

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