3.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2011-0542

Published: 02/09/2011 Updated: 13/02/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 3.3 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.4
VMScore: 294
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

fusermount in fuse 2.8.5 and previous versions does not perform a chdir to / before performing a mount or umount, which allows local users to unmount arbitrary directories via unspecified vectors.

Vulnerability Trend

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fuse fuse 2.4.2

fuse fuse 2.6.0

fuse fuse 2.4.1

fuse fuse 2.2

fuse fuse 2.6.5

fuse fuse 2.7.0

fuse fuse 2.7.4

fuse fuse 2.3.0

fuse fuse 2.4.0

fuse fuse 2.6.3

fuse fuse 2.5.3

fuse fuse 2.3

fuse fuse 2.0

fuse fuse 2.8.1

fuse fuse 2.2.1

fuse fuse 2.5.1

fuse fuse 2.7.1

fuse fuse 2.8.2

fuse fuse 2.7.2

fuse fuse 2.1

fuse fuse 2.8.0

fuse fuse 2.5.2

fuse fuse

fuse fuse 1.9

fuse fuse 2.7.5

fuse fuse 2.7.6

fuse fuse 2.5.0

fuse fuse 2.6.1

fuse fuse 2.8.4

fuse fuse 2.8.3

fuse fuse 2.7.3

Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #624551 Three more security issues: CVE-2011-0541, CVE-2011-0542, CVE-2011-0543 Package: fuse; Maintainer for fuse is Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debianorg>; Source for fuse is src:fuse (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <muehlenhoff@univentionde> Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 ...
It was discovered that FUSE would incorrectly follow symlinks when checking mountpoints under certain conditions A local attacker, with access to use FUSE, could unmount arbitrary locations, leading to a denial of service ...