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ELSA-2011-1083 Moderate: Oracle Linux fuse security update

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ELSA-2011-1083 Moderate: Oracle Linux fuse security update

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/22/2011
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/20/2011
Modified
04/11/2019

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.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-fuse
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-fuse-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-fuse-libs

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