Debian: New afuse packages fix privilege escalation


 
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Old 07-16-2008
Debian: New afuse packages fix privilege escalation

LinuxSecurity.com: 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 to the filesystem to execute commands as the owner of the filesystem.

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