USN-5711-1: NTFS-3G vulnerability

2 November 2022

NTFS-3G could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator if it mounted a specially crafted disk.

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Releases

Packages

  • ntfs-3g - read/write NTFS driver for FUSE

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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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 22.10
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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