CVE-2007-2075

ScramDisk 4 Linux before 1.0-1 does not perform permission checks on mount points, which allows local users to gain privileges by using a system directory as a mount point for a container...

FreeBSD -- Jail rc.d script privilege escalation

Problem Description: In multiple situations the host's jail rc.d8 script does not check if a path inside the jail file system structure is a symbolic link before using the path. In particular this is the case when writing the output from the jail start-up to /var/log/console.log and when mounting...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : fuse (MDKSA-2005:216)

Thomas Beige found that fusermount failed to securely handle special characters specified in mount points, which could allow a local attacker to corrupt the contents of /etc/mtab by mounting over a maliciously-named directory using fusermount. This could potentially allow the attacker to set...

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...