Debian Security Advisory
DSA-5270-1 ntfs-3g -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 04 Nov 2022
- Affected Packages:
- ntfs-3g
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2022-40284.
- More information:
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Yuchen Zeng and Eduardo Vela discovered a buffer overflow in NTFS-3G, a read-write NTFS driver for FUSE, due to incorrect validation of some of the NTFS metadata. A local user can take advantage of this flaw for local root privilege escalation.
For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 1:2017.3.23AR.3-4+deb11u3.
We recommend that you upgrade your ntfs-3g packages.
For the detailed security status of ntfs-3g please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/ntfs-3g