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SUSE: 2018:3260-1 Moderate: Risk of Fuse SELinux Bypass Found

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Calendar Grey October 19, 2018
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE has issued a security update regarding fuse, which tackles a SELinux circumvention vulnerability impacting both users and services.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

This update for fuse fixes the following issues: - 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 Module for Basesystem 15:

References

#1101797

Cross- CVE-2018-10906

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1101797

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:3260-1
Rating: moderate

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