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:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

To update your system, please follow these instructions: