USN-3914-1

A heap buffer overflow was discovered in NTFS-3G when executing it with a relative mount point path that is too long. A local attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code as the administrator.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / ntfs-3g

Package

Name: ntfs-3g
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/ntfs-3g@1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.2?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.2

Affected versions

1:2014.*

1:2014.2.15AR.3-3

1:2015.*

1:2015.3.14AR.1-1

1:2015.3.14AR.1-1build1

1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "ntfs-3g",
            "binary_version": "1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "ntfs-3g-dev",
            "binary_version": "1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.2"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / ntfs-3g

Package

Name: ntfs-3g
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/ntfs-3g@1:2017.3.23-2ubuntu0.18.04.1?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:2017.3.23-2ubuntu0.18.04.1

Affected versions

1:2016.*

1:2016.2.22AR.2-2

1:2017.*

1:2017.3.23-2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libntfs-3g88",
            "binary_version": "1:2017.3.23-2ubuntu0.18.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "ntfs-3g",
            "binary_version": "1:2017.3.23-2ubuntu0.18.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "ntfs-3g-dev",
            "binary_version": "1:2017.3.23-2ubuntu0.18.04.1"
        }
    ]
}