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CVE-2010-3879

Date: January 22, 2011

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.

Severity Score

4.8

Related Resources (24)

Url: http://www.halfdog.net/Security/FuseTimerace/

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651183

Url: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053792.html

Url: http://osvdb.org/70520

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:155

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0181

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/62986

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-3879

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44623

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1045-2

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1045-1

Url: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/670622

Url: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651598

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2010-3879

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/05/2

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0302

Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602333

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-3879

Url: http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2010-November/077247.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/42965

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/04/8

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/42961

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2010-3879

Severity Score

4.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

CWE-59

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	4.8
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.8
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2010-3879

Date: January 22, 2011

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