CVE-2005-3531

CVE-2005-3531 affects fusermount in the FUSE project (before version 2.4.1). The issue arises when fusermount is installed setuid root and a mount is performed over a directory whose name contains certain special characters, allowing local users to corrupt /etc/mtab and potentially modify mount o...

FUSE: mtab corruption through fusermount

Background FUSE Filesystem in Userspace allows implementation of a fully functional filesystem in a userspace program. The fusermount utility is used to mount/unmount FUSE file systems. Description Thomas Biege discovered that fusermount fails to securely handle special characters specified in...