Debian: DSA 744-1 Critical: Fuse Information Disclosure Risk
debian
July 8, 2005
Sven Tantau discovered a security problem in fuse, a filesystem in
userspace, that can be exploited by malicious local users to disclose
potentially sensitive information.
Topics Covered
Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.2.1-4sarge2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.0-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your fuse package.
Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge
Size/MD5 checksum: 638 67ad2f1822f0f2d1d35d9fe432f43f33
Size/MD5 checksum: 10632 7ce74449f1b13092ba083361d37bf9da
Size/MD5 checksum: 355773 250d89b9c7b6ecf531df60c67f75737d
Architecture independent components:
Size/MD5 chec...
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