Arbitrary Pathname Symlink Attack in FUSE Filesystems

CVE-2010-3879 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

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.

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