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Mageia 8: MGASA-2022-0001 Critical: NTFS-3G Buffer Overflow Attack

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Calendar Grey January 3, 2022
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Addressing essential ntfs-3g issues in Mageia to hinder illicit entry and code execution threats.
Security vulnerabilities were identified in the open source NTFS-3G and NTFSPROGS software

Summary

Security vulnerabilities were identified in the open source NTFS-3G and NTFSPROGS software. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker using a maliciously crafted NTFS-formatted image file or external storage to potentially execute arbitrary privileged code, if the attacker has either local access and the ntfs-3g binary is setuid root, or if the attacker has physical access to an external port to a computer which is configured to run the ntfs-3g binary or one of the ntfsprogs tools when the external storage is plugged into the computer. These vulnerabilities result from incorrect validation of some of the NTFS metadata that could potentially cause buffer overflows, which could be exploited by an attacker. Common ways for attackers to gain physical access to a machine is through social engineering or an evil maid attack on an unattended computer.

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29428

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/08/30/1

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5060-1

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/J6ACAL2OSY4MFKIQMETQG4T7ZJS2BVPE/

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- https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2021/msg00156.html

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-33285

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-35269

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-35268

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-33289

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-33286

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-35266

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-33287

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-35267

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-39251

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-39252

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-39253

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-39254

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-39255

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-39256

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-39257

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-39258

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-39259

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-39260

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-39261

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-39262

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-39263

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue buffer overflow software update Mageia NTFS-3G

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/ntfs-3g-2021.8.22-1.mga8

- 8/core/libguestfs-1.44.0-2.2.mga8

- 8/core/wimlib-1.13.3-1.2.mga8

- 8/core/partclone-0.3.18-1.mga8

- 8/core/ntfs-3g-system-compression-1.0-1.2.mga8

- 8/core/testdisk-7.1-2.2.mga8

Severity
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Critical

Publication date: 03 Jan 2022
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2022-0001.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-33285, CVE-2021-35269, CVE-2021-35268, CVE-2021-33289, CVE-2021-33286, CVE-2021-35266, CVE-2021-33287, CVE-2021-35267, CVE-2021-39251, CVE-2021-39252, CVE-2021-39253, CVE-2021-39254, CVE-2021-39255, CVE-2021-39256, CVE-2021-39257, CVE-2021-39258, CVE-2021-39259, CVE-2021-39260, CVE-2021-39261, CVE-2021-39262, CVE-2021-39263

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue buffer overflow software update Mageia NTFS-3G

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