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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : NTFS-3G vulnerability (USN-3182-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 96951

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

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.

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Solution

Update the affected ntfs-3g, ntfs-3g-dev and / or ntfs-3g-udeb packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3182-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 96951

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3182-1.nasl

Version: 3.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/2/2017

Updated: 10/23/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-0358

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ntfs-3g, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ntfs-3g-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:ntfs-3g-udeb, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/1/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/13/2018

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Metasploit (Debian/Ubuntu ntfs-3g Local Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-0358

USN: 3182-1