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.
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Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
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Debian DLA |
DLA-815-1 | ntfs-3g security update |
Debian DSA |
DSA-3780-1 | ntfs-3g security update |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-3182-1 | NTFS-3G vulnerability |
Fixes
Solution
No solution given by the vendor.
Workaround
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References
History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: debian
Published:
Updated: 2025-12-04T16:01:26.539Z
Reserved: 2016-11-29T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2017-0358
Updated: 2024-08-05T13:03:56.587Z
Status : Modified
Published: 2018-04-13T15:29:00.397
Modified: 2025-12-04T16:15:48.560
Link: CVE-2017-0358
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OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
Debian DLA
Debian DSA
Ubuntu USN