Debian Security Advisory

DSA-744-1 fuse -- programming error

Date Reported:

08 Jul 2005

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 311634.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 13857.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-1858.

More information:

Sven Tantau discovered a security problem in fuse, a filesystem in userspace, that can be exploited by malicious, local users to disclose potentially sensitive information.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain the fuse package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.1-4sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.0-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your fuse package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/fuse_2.2.1-4sarge2.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/fuse_2.2.1-4sarge2.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/fuse_2.2.1.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/fuse-source_2.2.1-4sarge2_all.deb
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/fuse-utils_2.2.1-4sarge2_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/libfuse-dev_2.2.1-4sarge2_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/libfuse2_2.2.1-4sarge2_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/fuse-utils_2.2.1-4sarge2_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/libfuse-dev_2.2.1-4sarge2_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/libfuse2_2.2.1-4sarge2_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/fuse-utils_2.2.1-4sarge2_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/libfuse-dev_2.2.1-4sarge2_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/libfuse2_2.2.1-4sarge2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/fuse-utils_2.2.1-4sarge2_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/libfuse-dev_2.2.1-4sarge2_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/libfuse2_2.2.1-4sarge2_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/fuse-utils_2.2.1-4sarge2_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/libfuse-dev_2.2.1-4sarge2_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/libfuse2_2.2.1-4sarge2_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/fuse-utils_2.2.1-4sarge2_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/libfuse-dev_2.2.1-4sarge2_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/libfuse2_2.2.1-4sarge2_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/fuse-utils_2.2.1-4sarge2_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/libfuse-dev_2.2.1-4sarge2_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/libfuse2_2.2.1-4sarge2_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/fuse-utils_2.2.1-4sarge2_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/libfuse-dev_2.2.1-4sarge2_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/libfuse2_2.2.1-4sarge2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/fuse-utils_2.2.1-4sarge2_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/libfuse-dev_2.2.1-4sarge2_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/libfuse2_2.2.1-4sarge2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/fuse-utils_2.2.1-4sarge2_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/libfuse-dev_2.2.1-4sarge2_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/libfuse2_2.2.1-4sarge2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/fuse-utils_2.2.1-4sarge2_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/libfuse-dev_2.2.1-4sarge2_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/f/fuse/libfuse2_2.2.1-4sarge2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.