FUSE, possibly 2.8.5 and earlier, allows local users to create...

Vulnerability 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.

References

• http://www.halfdog.net/Security/FuseTimerace/
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1045-1
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42965
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/62986
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2010-November/077247.html
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/04/8
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0302
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651598
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0181
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651183
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42961
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/670622
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602333
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44623
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/05/2
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1045-2
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053792.html
• http://osvdb.org/70520
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:155