cve/2010/CVE-2010-3879.md

### [CVE-2010-3879](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-3879)
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### Description

FUSE, possibly 2.8.5 and earlier, allows local users to create mtab entries with arbitrary pathnames, and consequently unmount any filesystem, via a symlink attack on the parent directory of the mountpoint of a FUSE filesystem, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0789.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.halfdog.net/Security/FuseTimerace/
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/670622
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651183

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.