USN-5711-1 fixed a vulnerability in NTFS-3G. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.
Original advisory details:
Yuchen Zeng and Eduardo Vela discovered that NTFS-3G incorrectly validated certain NTFS metadata. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to gain privileges.
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{ "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro", "binaries": [ { "binary_version": "1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.3+esm4", "binary_name": "ntfs-3g" }, { "binary_version": "1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.3+esm4", "binary_name": "ntfs-3g-dbg" }, { "binary_version": "1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.3+esm4", "binary_name": "ntfs-3g-dbgsym" }, { "binary_version": "1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.3+esm4", "binary_name": "ntfs-3g-dev" }, { "binary_version": "1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.3+esm4", "binary_name": "ntfs-3g-dev-dbgsym" }, { "binary_version": "1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.3+esm4", "binary_name": "ntfs-3g-udeb" }, { "binary_version": "1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.3+esm4", "binary_name": "ntfs-3g-udeb-dbgsym" } ] }