[ GLSA 200511-17 ] FUSE: mtab corruption through fusermount

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CVE-2005-3531

fusermount in FUSE before 2.4.1, if installed setuid root, allows local users to corrupt /etc/mtab and possibly modify mount options by performing a mount over a directory whose name contains certain special characters...

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...