SB2017020213 - Improper Privilege Management in ntfs-3g (Alpine package)
Published: February 2, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017020213
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Improper Privilege Management (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-0358)
The vulnerability allows a local authenticated user to execute arbitrary code.
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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.