Package : fuse Vulnerability : programming error Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-1858 BugTraq ID : 13857 Debian Bug : 311634
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.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain the fuse package.
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 --------------------------------