From https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/08/30/1: ``` Security vulnerabilities were identified in the open source NTFS-3G and NTFSPROGS software. These vulnerabilities were confirmed and resolved. To our knowledge, these vulnerabilities have not been exploited. 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. We recommend installing and applying the update with the security fixes, and advise to follow security guidance and frameworks such as NIST for assessing and improving an organization’s abilities to prevent, detect, and respond to security threats and cyber attacks. AFFECTED PRODUCTS: All previous versions of open source NTFS-3G and NTFSPROGS. WORKAROUND: None SOLUTION: Upgrade to 2021.8.22 PROJECT URL: https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g ADVISORY ID: NTFS3G-SA-2021-0001 ISSUE DATE: 2021-08-30 SEVERITY: Moderate CVEs: 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 CVSS SCORE: 3.9-6.7 ACKNOWLEDGMENT: Jeremy Galindo, Akshay Ajayan, Kyle Zeng and Fish Wang for reporting these vulnerabilities. ```
Created ntfs-3g tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: epel-all [bug 2006447] Affects: fedora-all [bug 2006446]
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.4.0.Z Via RHSA-2021:3703 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3703
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s): https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-39255
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.2.1 Via RHSA-2021:3704 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3704
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Via RHSA-2022:1759 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1759