USN-2617-1

Tavis Ormandy discovered that FUSE incorrectly filtered environment variables. A local attacker could use this issue to gain administrative privileges.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / fuse

Package

Name: fuse
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/fuse@2.9.2-4ubuntu4.14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.9.2-4ubuntu4.14.04.1

Affected versions

2.*

2.9.2-4ubuntu3

2.9.2-4ubuntu4

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "fuse",
            "binary_version": "2.9.2-4ubuntu4.14.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libfuse2",
            "binary_version": "2.9.2-4ubuntu4.14.04.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2015-3202",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "high"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2617-1.json"