DSA-2765-1 davfs2 -- privilege escalation

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:

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.