<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201701-19"> <title>NTFS-3G: Privilege escalation</title> <synopsis>A vulnerability in NTFS-3G allows local users to gain root privileges. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">ntfs3g</product> <announced>2017-01-11</announced> <revised count="1">2017-01-11</revised> <bug>550970</bug> <access>local</access> <affected> <package name="sys-fs/ntfs3g" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">2016.2.22</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">2016.2.22</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>NTFS-3G is a stable, full-featured, read-write NTFS driver for various operating systems. </p> </background> <description> <p>NTFS-3G is affected by the same vulnerability as reported in “GLSA 201603-04” when the bundled fuse-lite implementation is used. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>A local user could gain root privileges.</p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time. However, on Gentoo when the “external-fuse” USE flag is set or the “suid” USE flag is not set then NTFS-3G is not affected. Both of these cases are the default configuration. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All NTFS-3G users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-fs/ntfs3g-2016.2.22" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-3202">CVE-2015-3202</uri> <uri link="https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-04">GLSA 201603-04</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-09-07T01:46:01Z"> BlueKnight </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-01-11T12:04:09Z">whissi</metadata> </glsa>