ubuntu · CVE-2005-3531

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Priority: medium Published: 2005-11-23 00:03:00 UTC Updated: 2025-07-17 16:36:58 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2005-3531 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (fuse), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): released 3, needs-triage 1.

Description:

fusermount in FUSE before 2.4.1, if installed setuid root, allows local users to corrupt /etc/mtab and possibly modify mount options by performing a mount over a directory whose name contains certain special characters.

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