CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-40284
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-11-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
Description
A buffer overflow was discovered in NTFS-3G before 2022.10.3. Crafted metadata in an NTFS image can cause code execution. A local attacker can exploit this if the ntfs-3g binary is setuid root. A physically proximate attacker can exploit this if NTFS-3G software is configured to execute upon attachment of an external storage device.
Affected configurations
• tuxera ntfs-3g (< 2022.10.3)
• debian debian linux 10.0
• fedoraproject fedora 35
• fedoraproject fedora 36
• fedoraproject fedora 37
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/10/31/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/releases Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00029.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2BOQ7YLFT43KLXEN3EB6CS4DP635RJWP/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IA2D4PYOR7ABI7BWBMMMYKY2OPHTV2NI/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UGDKGXA4R2ZVUQ3CT4D4YGTFMNZQA7HW/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202301-01 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/10/31/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/releases Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00029.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2BOQ7YLFT43KLXEN3EB6CS4DP635RJWP/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IA2D4PYOR7ABI7BWBMMMYKY2OPHTV2NI/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UGDKGXA4R2ZVUQ3CT4D4YGTFMNZQA7HW/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202301-01 Third Party Advisory