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Debian: DSA-4257-1 Moderate Vulnerability in Fuse SELinux Bypass

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Calendar Grey July 28, 2018
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The recent Debian Security Advisory DSA-4258-1 highlights a significant vulnerability in the Samba package, which enables potential privilege escalation by unauthorized users.
Jann Horn discovered that FUSE, a Filesystem in USErspace, allows the bypass of the 'user_allow_other' restriction when SELinux is active (including in permissive mode)
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security advisory Debian SELinux filesystem bypass fuse user_allow_other

Summary

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.9.7-1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your fuse packages.

For the detailed security status of fuse please refer to its security
tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/fuse

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



Package: fuse
CVE ID: CVE-2018-10906

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security advisory Debian SELinux filesystem bypass fuse user_allow_other

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