Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2765-1 davfs2 -- privilege escalation
- Date Reported:
- 26 Sep 2013
- Affected Packages:
- davfs2
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 723034.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2013-4362. - More information:
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Davfs2, a filesystem client for WebDAV, calls the function system() insecurely while is setuid root. This might allow a privilege escalation.
For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.6-1.1+squeeze1.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.6-1.1+deb7u1.
For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.7-3.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.7-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your davfs2 packages.