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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : fuse vulnerability (USN-1045-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 51583

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

It was discovered that FUSE could be tricked into incorrectly updating the mtab file when mounting filesystems. A local attacker, with access to use FUSE, could unmount arbitrary locations, leading to a denial of service.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1045-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 51583

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1045-1.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/20/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:fuse-source, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:fuse-utils, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfuse2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfuse-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 1/19/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/22/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3879

USN: 1045-1