Fedora 20: ntfs-3g Security Update
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.
Change Log
* Fri May 22 2015 Tom Callaway
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 .