USN-5711-1 fixed a vulnerability in NTFS-3G. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.
Original advisory details:
Yuchen Zeng and Eduardo Vela discovered that NTFS-3G incorrectly validated certain NTFS metadata. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to gain privileges.
{ "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro", "binaries": [ { "ntfs-3g-dev-dbgsym": "1:2013.1.13AR.1-2ubuntu2+esm4", "ntfs-3g": "1:2013.1.13AR.1-2ubuntu2+esm4", "ntfs-3g-dbg": "1:2013.1.13AR.1-2ubuntu2+esm4", "ntfs-3g-dev": "1:2013.1.13AR.1-2ubuntu2+esm4", "ntfs-3g-dbgsym": "1:2013.1.13AR.1-2ubuntu2+esm4", "ntfs-3g-udeb-dbgsym": "1:2013.1.13AR.1-2ubuntu2+esm4", "ntfs-3g-udeb": "1:2013.1.13AR.1-2ubuntu2+esm4" } ] }
{ "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro", "binaries": [ { "ntfs-3g-dev-dbgsym": "1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.3+esm4", "ntfs-3g": "1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.3+esm4", "ntfs-3g-dbg": "1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.3+esm4", "ntfs-3g-dev": "1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.3+esm4", "ntfs-3g-dbgsym": "1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.3+esm4", "ntfs-3g-udeb-dbgsym": "1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.3+esm4", "ntfs-3g-udeb": "1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.3+esm4" } ] }