NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libfuse package, versions [3.18.1,]
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- published28 Mar 2026
- disclosed20 Mar 2026
- creditgabhin
Introduced: 20 Mar 2026
NewCVE-2026-33179 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference in the fuse_uring_init_queue process. An attacker can cause the daemon to crash or exhaust system resources by triggering a failure in numa_alloc_local during io_uring queue entry setup, leading the code to proceed with NULL pointers and leak NUMA allocations when fuse_uring_register_queue fails. This is only exploitable if the io_uring transport is used; the traditional /dev/fuse path is not affected.