USN-3182-1: NTFS-3G vulnerability
USN-3182-1: NTFS-3G vulnerability Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3182-1 1st February, 2017 ntfs-3g vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary NTFS-3G could be made to load kernel modules as an administrator. Software description ntfs-3g – read/write NTFS driver for FUSE Details Jann Horn discovered that NTFS-3G incorrectly filtered environment variableswhen using the modprobe utility. A local attacker could possibly use this issueto load arbitrary kernel modules. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 16.10: ntfs-3g 1:2016.2.22AR.1-3ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: ntfs-3g 1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.1 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes. References CVE-2017-0358 Source: USN-3182-1: NTFS-3G vulnerability