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A story of three kernel vulnerabilities

A story of three kernel vulnerabilities

Posted Feb 21, 2013 19:40 UTC (Thu) by alonz (subscriber, #815)
In reply to: A story of three kernel vulnerabilities by drag
Parent article: A story of three kernel vulnerabilities

The only setuid binary involved with using FUSE is "fusermount", which only opens /dev/fuse and immediately drops privilege. The filesystem handler itself runs as an unprivileged user.

So I, for one, really don't get your point.


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