Secure testing team - Jul 2008 - Bug#490921: CVE-2008-2232: privilege escalation

Package: afuse
Version: 0.2-2
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: user security hole

Hi

A privilege escalation has been reported against afuse.
This issue is CVE-2008-2232.

Here is some additional information:

afuse accepts a command line of the form
  afuse /path -o mount_template="mount-script %m %r" \
      unmount_template="unmount-script %m %r"
It replaces %m with the mountpoint and %r with the next component of the
pathname being accessed.  These interpolated strings are inserted inside
double quotes, but metacharacters within them are not escaped.  The
resulting string is then passed to system() and executed by the shell.

Therefore, an attacker with read access to the afuse filesystem can gain
the privileges of its owner, using paths such as
  /path/";arbitrary command;"
  /path/`arbitrary command`

The patch attached is from the original is from the original reporter
Anders Kaseorg, please honour him in the changelog.

When you fix this issue, please mention the CVE id in your changelog.

Cheers
Steffen
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