CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-39257
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-09-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-674
Description
A crafted NTFS image with an unallocated bitmap can lead to a endless recursive function call chain (starting from ntfs_attr_pwrite), causing stack consumption in NTFS-3G < 2021.8.22.
Affected configurations
• tuxera ntfs-3g (< 2021.8.22)
• debian debian linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion weakness
References
- https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/releases Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/security/advisories/GHSA-q759-8j5v-q5jp Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00013.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202301-01 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4971 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/releases Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/security/advisories/GHSA-q759-8j5v-q5jp Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00013.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202301-01 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4971 Third Party Advisory