CVE-2019-20794

fuse: FUSE daemon can make itself unkillable with request loops

References

• https://github.com/sargun/fuse-example
• https://sourceforge.net/p/fuse/mailman/message/36598753/
• https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1e796f9e008fb78fb96358ff74f39bd4865a7c88.1604926010.git.gladkov.alexey@gmail.com/

Notes

 bwh> The proposed fix notes that the daemon can be killed off through
 bwh> the fusectl filesystem, but the kill command or service shutdown
 bwh> won't work.

Bugs

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