N/A - USN-3182-1

Executive Summary

Summary
Title	NTFS-3G vulnerability

Informations
Name	USN-3182-1	First vendor Publication	2017-02-01
Vendor	Ubuntu	Last vendor Modification	2017-02-01
Severity (Vendor)	N/A	Revision	N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score	NA
Base Score	NA	Environmental Score	NA
impact SubScore	NA	Temporal Score	NA
Exploitabality Sub Score	NA

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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector :
Cvss Base Score	N/A	Attack Range	N/A
Cvss Impact Score	N/A	Attack Complexity	N/A
Cvss Expoit Score	N/A	Authentication	N/A
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 16.10 - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

NTFS-3G could be made to load kernel modules as an administrator.

Software Description: - ntfs-3g: read/write NTFS driver for FUSE

Details:

Jann Horn discovered that NTFS-3G incorrectly filtered environment variables when using the modprobe utility. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to load arbitrary kernel modules.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.10:
ntfs-3g 1:2016.2.22AR.1-3ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
ntfs-3g 1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3182-1
CVE-2017-0358

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntfs-3g/1:2016.2.22AR.1-3ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntfs-3g/1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.1