Not a U.S. government website. NDD is an independent vulnerability database by Volerion and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NIST or NVD.
VOLERION
Volerion Security Research

NOT DEFERRED DATABASE

VULNERABILITIES

CVE-2010-3879 Details

Description

FUSE, possibly 2.8.5 and earlier, allows local users to create mtab entries with arbitrary pathnames, and consequently unmount any filesystem, via a symlink attack on the parent directory of the mountpoint of a FUSE filesystem, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0789.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving this site. These are references gathered from the official CVE record and are not endorsed by Volerion.

URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602333 CVEExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-February/053792.html CVEThird Party Advisory
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2010-November/077247.html CVEExploitThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-04/msg00000.html CVEThird Party Advisory
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/11/04/8 CVEExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory

see all 40 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-59Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
libfuse project libfuse
<= 2.8.5

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:libfuse_project:libfuse:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

7 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2010-3879
NVD Published Date:
Jan 22, 2011
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 16, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2010-3879 Details - Not Deferred