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Debian: DSA-1611-1 Critical: Afuse Privilege Escalation Fix

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Calendar Grey July 16, 2008
Scroller Debian
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Anders Kaseorg discovered that afuse, an automounting file system in user-space, did not properly escape meta characters in paths. This allowed a local attacker with read access ...
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Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.2-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your afuse (0.1.1-1+etch1) package.

Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch

Size/MD5 checksum: 3699 645246f8f338b76b6d6785fff9997c5a
Size/MD5 checksum: 657 fe408099626f3bad3bc68d2717df2a9b
Size/MD5 checksum: 98171 95cce7d6ed8e984d0ff2d650e6beb167

alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

Size/MD5 checksum: 15476 465baebb172ecda5ed1e7bdd174fddac

amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

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