Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-0358: NTFS-3G: Privilege escalation
7
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
02/19/2017
07/25/2018
10/30/2017
05/22/2018
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)
- gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-fs-ntfs3g
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