Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:20170358000
Revision Date:2018-04-13Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-0358 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.
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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-0358
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND The 'ntfs-3g' package in xenial was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.1').
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