RHEL 6 : fuse (RHSA-2011:1083)

high Nessus Plugin ID 55635

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for fuse.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:1083 advisory.

FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) can implement a fully functional file system in a user-space program. These packages provide the mount utility, fusermount, the tool used to mount FUSE file systems.

Multiple flaws were found in the way fusermount handled the mounting and unmounting of directories when symbolic links were present. A local user in the fuse group could use these flaws to unmount file systems, which they would otherwise not be able to unmount and that were not mounted using FUSE, via a symbolic link attack. (CVE-2010-3879, CVE-2011-0541, CVE-2011-0542, CVE-2011-0543)

Note: The util-linux-ng RHBA-2011:0699 update must also be installed to fully correct the above flaws.

All users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL fuse package based on the guidance in RHSA-2011:1083.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 55635

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-1083.nasl

Version: 1.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/21/2011

Updated: 4/14/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-3879

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-0542

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fuse-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fuse, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:fuse-devel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/20/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/22/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3879, CVE-2011-0541, CVE-2011-0542, CVE-2011-0543

BID: 44623, 46103

RHSA: 2011:1083

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