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Debian DSA-1611-1 : afuse - privilege escalation

medium Nessus Plugin ID 33527

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

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.

Solution

Upgrade the afuse (0.1.1-1+etch1) package.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.1.1-1+etch1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=490921

https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1611

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 33527

File Name: debian_DSA-1611.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/17/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:afuse, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/16/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2232

BID: 30245

CWE: 264

DSA: 1611