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Fedora 21 ntfs-3g Critical Update for Privilege Escalation CVE-2015-3202

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Calendar Grey June 5, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Security patch released for ntfs-3g in Fedora 21 addressing the privilege escalation vulnerability disclosed in CVE-2015-3202.
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora privilege escalation 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

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 21
Version: 2015.3.14
Release: 2.fc21
URL:
Summary: Linux NTFS userspace driver

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora privilege escalation ntfs-3g

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