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Ubuntu 15.04 : ntfs-3g vulnerability (USN-2617-3)

low Nessus Plugin ID 83861

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

USN-2617-1 fixed a vulnerability in NTFS-3G. The original patch did not completely address the issue. This update fixes the problem.

Tavis Ormandy discovered that FUSE incorrectly filtered environment variables. A local attacker could use this issue to gain administrative privileges.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected ntfs-3g package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/2617-3/

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 83861

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2617-3.nasl

Version: 2.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/27/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ntfs-3g, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/27/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/2/2015

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3202

BID: 74765

USN: 2617-3