Symlink Attack Vulnerability in fusermount

CVE-2011-0543 · LOW Severity

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

Certain legacy functionality in fusermount in fuse 2.8.5 and earlier, when util-linux does not support the --no-canonicalize option, allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and unmount arbitrary directories via a symlink attack.

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