Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3780-1 ntfs-3g -- security update

Date Reported:
01 Feb 2017
Affected Packages:
ntfs-3g
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-0358.
More information:

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.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2014.2.15AR.2-1+deb8u3.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2016.2.22AR.1-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your ntfs-3g packages.