High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 13, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-0358
CVE-2017-0358
Description
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.
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Affected products
11- osv-coords9 versionspkg:rpm/suse/ntfs-3g&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Workstation%20Extension%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Workstation%20Extension%2012%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Workstation%20Extension%2012%20SP5
< 2011.4.12-0.9.3.1+ 8 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2011.4.12-0.9.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2013.1.13-5.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2013.1.13-5.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2013.1.13-5.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2013.1.13-5.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2021.8.22-5.9.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2013.1.13-5.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2013.1.13-5.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2021.8.22-5.9.1
Patches
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References
7- marc.infonvdExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41240/nvdExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/41356/nvdExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/04/1nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/95987nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-10nvdThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3780nvd
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