Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1611-1 afuse -- privilege escalation
- Date Reported:
- 16 Jul 2008
- Affected Packages:
- afuse
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 490921.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-2232. - More information:
-
Anders Kaseorg discovered that afuse, an automounting file system in user-space, did not properly escape meta characters in paths. This allowed a local attacker with read access to the filesystem to execute commands as the owner of the filesystem.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.1-1+etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.2-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your afuse (0.1.1-1+etch1) package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1.dsc
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/afuse/afuse_0.1.1-1+etch1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.