NTFS-3G is a stable, open source, GPL licensed, POSIX, read/write NTFS driver for Linux and many other operating systems. It provides safe handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 NTFS file systems.
Security Fix(es):
A heap buffer overflow exists in ntfsbuildpermissionsposix() (acls.c:4011-4027) that allows an attacker to corrupt heap memory in the SUID-root ntfs-3g binary by crafting a malicious NTFS image. The overflow is triggered on the READ path (stat, readdir, open) when processing a security descriptor with multiple ACCESSDENIED ACEs containing WRITE_OWNER from distinct group SIDs.
The overflow size is attacker-controlled (8 to 14,000+ bytes) and writes partially attacker-controlled data (POSIX_ACE entries with attacker-derived GID values) past the heap allocation. This corrupts adjacent glibc heap chunk metadata, as confirmed by a crash in intfree() with "free(): corrupted unsorted chunks".(CVE-2026-40706)
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