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Debian: New afuse packages fix privilege escalation

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LinuxSecurity.com: Anders Kaseorg discovered that afuse, an automounting file system in user-space, did not properly escape meta characters in paths. This allowed a local attacker with read access to the filesystem to execute commands as the owner of the filesystem.




Original Source: http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/139936?rdf

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