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 variables
when using the modprobe utility. A local attacker could possibly use this issue
to 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
Source: USN-3182-1: NTFS-3G vulnerability
