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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
ntfs-3g ntfs-3g
n/aaffected
References
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-10 ↗
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3780 ↗
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41240/ ↗
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41356/ ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95987 ↗
- https://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=148594671929354&w=2 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/04/1 ↗