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CVE-2017-0358

ntfs-3g: Modprobe influence vulnerability via environment variables PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
ntfs-3g / ntfs-3gaffected n/a

CWE

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