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SUSE: 2018:3219-1 Moderate: Fuse Restriction Bypass Issue

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Calendar Grey October 18, 2018
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE issues a security patch for fuse targeting a privilege escalation vulnerability assessed as moderate in impact.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

This update for fuse fixes the following security issue: - CVE-2018-10906: fusermount was vulnerable to a restriction bypass when SELinux is active. This allowed non-root users to mount a FUSE file system with the 'allow_other' mount option regardless of whether 'user_allow_other' is set in the fuse configuration. An attacker may use this flaw to mount a FUSE file system, accessible by other users, and trick them into accessing files on that file system, possibly causing Denial of Service or other unspecified effects (bsc#1101797) Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3:

References

#1101797

Cross- CVE-2018-10906

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3

SUSE CaaS Platform ALL

SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0

OpenStack Cloud Magnum Orchestration 7

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10906.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1101797

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:3219-1
Rating: moderate

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