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High USN-3182-1 1 CVE

ntfs-3g vulnerability

Published Feb 1, 2017 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

Jann Horn discovered that NTFS-3G incorrectly filtered environment variables
when using the modprobe utility. A local attacker could possibly use this issue
to load arbitrary kernel modules.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS ntfs-3g 1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.8
    CVE-2017-0358 Public exploit

    ntfs-3g: Modprobe influence vulnerability via environment variables

    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.

    ntfs-3g ntfs-3g ntfs-3g ntfs-3g Debian Ubuntu

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-0358