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Fedora 20: FEDORA-2015-8777 Critical: NTFS-3G Privilege Escalation

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Fix CVE-2015-3202.

Summary

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. NTFS-3G can

create, remove, rename, move files, directories, hard links, and streams;

it can read and write normal and transparently compressed files, including

streams and sparse files; it can handle special files like symbolic links,

devices, and FIFOs, ACL, extended attributes; moreover it provides full

file access right and ownership support.

Update Information:

Fix CVE-2015-3202.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora privilege escalation critical fix ntfs-3g

Change Log

* Fri May 22 2015 Tom Callaway 2:2015.3.14-2 - fix CVE-2015-3202 * Tue Apr 7 2015 Tom Callaway 2:2015.3.14-1 - update to 2015.3.14 * Sat Feb 21 2015 Till Maas - 2:2014.2.15-8 - Rebuilt for Fedora 23 Change https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_all_packages_with_position-independent_code * Tue Jan 13 2015 Tom Callaway - 2:2014.2.15-7 - add patch to ignore -s option * Sun Aug 17 2014 Fedora Release Engineering - 2:2014.2.15-6 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_22_Mass_Rebuild * Tue Aug 5 2014 Richard W.M. Jones - 2:2014.2.15-5 - Add upstream patch to fix fstrim so it works on partitions as well as whole disks. * Thu Jul 31 2014 Richard W.M. Jones - 2:2014.2.15-4 - Upstream patches which add fstrim support. * Sat Jun 7 2014 Fedora Release Engineering - 2:2014.2.15-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild * Thu Apr 24 2014 Tomáš Mráz - 2:2014.2.15-2 - Rebuild for new libgcrypt * Wed Feb 26 2014 Tom Callaway 2:2014.2.15-1 - update to 2014.2.15

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1224103 - CVE-2015-3202 fuse: incorrect filtering of environment variables leading to privilege escalation https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1224103

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update ntfs-3g' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: ntfs-3g
Product: Fedora 20
Version: 2015.3.14
Release: 2.fc20
URL: https://www.tuxera.com/
Summary: Linux NTFS userspace driver

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora privilege escalation critical fix ntfs-3g

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