vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-0358: NTFS-3G: Privilege escalation

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 19, 2017
Added
Oct 30, 2017
Modified
Nov 27, 2024

Description

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.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-fs-ntfs3g
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