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SUSE: CVE-2017-0358: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-0358: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
02/01/2017
Created
03/19/2019
Added
07/27/2018
Modified
11/24/2021

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(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libntfs-3g-devel
  • suse-upgrade-libntfs-3g84
  • suse-upgrade-ntfs-3g
  • suse-upgrade-ntfs-3g-devel
  • suse-upgrade-ntfsprogs

References

  • SUSE-SU-2018:2070-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:3587-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:3587-2
  • SUSE-SU-2021:2965-1
  • DLA-815-1
  • DSA-3780
  • CVE-2017-0358
  • USN-3182-1
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