The expand_template function in afuse.c in afuse 0.2 allows local users to gain privileges via shell metacharacters in a pathname.

Fixes CVE-2008-2232:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2008-2232

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

Anders Kaseorg discovered that afuse, an automounting file system in user-space, did not properly escape meta characters in paths. This allowed a local attacker with read access to the filesystem to execute commands as the owner of the filesystem.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
40684	Fedora 11 : afuse-0.2-4.fc11 (2009-8816)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
40676	Fedora 10 : afuse-0.2-4.fc10 (2009-8792)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
33527	Debian DSA-1611-1 : afuse - privilege escalation	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

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CVE-2008-2232

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