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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1724-1 ntfs-3g -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

22 Mar 2019

Affected Packages:

ntfs-3g

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-9755.

More information:

A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in NTFS-3G, a read-write NTFS driver for FUSE. A local user can take advantage of this flaw for local root privilege escalation.

For Debian 8 Jessie, this problem has been fixed in version 1:2014.2.15AR.2-1+deb8u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your ntfs-3g packages.

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