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2 vulnerabilities by ntfs-3g
CVE-2017-0358 (GCVE-0-2017-0358)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-04-13 15:00 – Updated: 2025-12-04 16:01
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CWE
- privilege escalation
Assigner
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CVE-2007-5159 (GCVE-0-2007-5159)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-10-01 00:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 18:24
VLAI?
Summary
The ntfs-3g package before 1.913-2.fc7 in Fedora 7, and an ntfs-3g package in Ubuntu 7.10/Gutsy, assign incorrect permissions (setuid root) to mount.ntfs-3g, which allows local users with fuse group membership to read from and write to arbitrary block devices, possibly involving a file descriptor leak.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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