CVE-2017-0358

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.

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41356/

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41240/

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3780

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-10

https://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=148594671929354&w=2

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95987

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/04/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3