Fedora 30 ntfs-3g Update: FEDORA-2019-e42442fb33 Critical Buffer Overflow

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.

Fix for CVE-2019-9755.

[ 1 ] Bug #1691624 - CVE-2019-9755 ntfs-3g: heap-based buffer overflow leads to local root privilege escalation

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1691624

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-e42442fb33' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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