Bug 1418625 (CVE-2017-0358)

Summary:	CVE-2017-0358 ntfs-3g: Modprobe influence vulnerability via environment variables
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-02-02 11:15:05 UTC

It was 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.

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/259