USN-892-1: FUSE vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu 9.04
• Ubuntu 8.10
• Ubuntu 8.04
• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• fuse -

Details

Dan Rosenberg discovered that FUSE did not correctly check mount
locations. A local attacker, with access to use FUSE, could unmount
arbitrary locations, leading to a denial of service.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 9.10

• fuse-utils - 2.7.4-1.1ubuntu4.3

Ubuntu 9.04

• fuse-utils - 2.7.4-1.1ubuntu4.0.9.04.1

Ubuntu 8.10

• fuse-utils - 2.7.3-4ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 8.04

• fuse-utils - 2.7.2-1ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 6.06

• fuse-utils - 2.4.2-0ubuntu3.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2009-3297
• CVE-2010-0789

Related notices

• USN-893-1: smbfs, samba