news 28 Posted February 1, 2017 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3780-1 security ( -at -) debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff February 01, 2017 https://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : ntfs-3g CVE ID : CVE-2017-0358 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. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2014.2.15AR.2-1+deb8u3. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2016.2.22AR.1-4. We recommend that you upgrade your ntfs-3g packages. Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://www.debian.org/security/ Share this post Link to post
