Access Restriction Bypass Affecting libfuse/libfuse package, versions [,2.9.3-15)[2.9.0,2.9.5-1)[2.9.0,2.9.5-1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (31st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBFUSELIBFUSE-3008093
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Jan 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Jan 2016

CVE-2016-1233  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libfuse/libfuse to version 2.9.3-15, 2.9.5-1, 2.9.5-1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. An unspecified udev rule in the Debian fuse package in jessie before 2.9.3-15+deb8u2, in stretch before 2.9.5-1, and in sid before 2.9.5-1 sets world-writable permissions for the /dev/cuse character device, which allows local users to gain privileges via a character device in /dev, related to an ioctl.

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