cve/2010/CVE-2010-3879.md

CVE-2010-3879

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.