Access Restriction Bypass Affecting ntfs-3g package, versions <1:2014.2.15AR.3-3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.04% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-NTFS3G-1554996
  • published2 Jul 2015
  • disclosed2 Jul 2015

Introduced: 2 Jul 2015

CVE-2015-3202  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 ntfs-3g to version 1:2014.2.15AR.3-3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ntfs-3g package and not the ntfs-3g package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

fusermount in FUSE before 2.9.3-15 does not properly clear the environment before invoking (1) mount or (2) umount as root, which allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a crafted LIBMOUNT_MTAB environment variable that is used by mount's debugging feature.

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