Bug 1418625 (CVE-2017-0358) - CVE-2017-0358 ntfs-3g: Modprobe influence vulnerability via environment variables
Summary: CVE-2017-0358 ntfs-3g: Modprobe influence vulnerability via environment varia...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2017-0358
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2017-02-02 11:15 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-04 00:44 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-02-02 11:16:46 UTC
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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.

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


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