oss-security - Re: CVE request: fuse

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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 11:17:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: fuse

----- Original Message -----
> 
> A few more fixes have made their way to FUSE to prevent TOCTTOU symlink
> attacks. An unprivileged user was able to unmount arbitrary mounts:
> 
> http://fuse.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=fuse/fuse;a=commit;h=bf5ffb5fd8558bd799791834def431c0cee5a11f
> http://fuse.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=fuse/fuse;a=commit;h=1e7607ff89c65b005f69e27aeb1649d624099873
> http://fuse.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=fuse/fuse;a=commit;h=cbd3a2a84068aae6e3fe32939d88470d712dbf47
> 
> Could we please get one or more CVE numbers for them?
> 

I don't understand what these flaws are just by reading the commit
messages. Can you explain them?

Thanks.

-- 
    JB

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