UBUNTU-CVE-2017-0358

Jann Horn of Google Project Zero discovered that NTFS-3G, a read-write NTFS driver for FUSE, does not scrub the environment before executing modprobe with elevated privileges. A local user can take advantage of this flaw for local root privilege escalation.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / ntfs-3g

Package

Name: ntfs-3g
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/ntfs-3g@1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

1:2014.*

1:2014.2.15AR.3-3

1:2015.*

1:2015.3.14AR.1-1

1:2015.3.14AR.1-1build1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "ntfs-3g",
            "binary_version": "1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "ntfs-3g-dbg",
            "binary_version": "1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "ntfs-3g-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "ntfs-3g-dev",
            "binary_version": "1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "ntfs-3g-dev-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "ntfs-3g-udeb",
            "binary_version": "1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "ntfs-3g-udeb-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.1"
        }
    ]
}