CVE-2021-46790

Summary

CVECVE-2021-46790
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-05-02 12:16:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:40:00 UTC
Descriptionntfsck in NTFS-3G through 2021.8.22 has a heap-based buffer overflow involving buffer+512*3-2. NOTE: the upstream position is that ntfsck is deprecated; however, it is shipped by some Linux distributions.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 35 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 36 All All All
Application Tuxera Ntfs-3g All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: ntfs-3g-2022.5.17-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: ntfs-3g-system-compression-1.0-9.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: ntfs-3g-system-compression-1.0-9.fc36 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-5160-1 ntfs-3g DEBIAN www.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: ntfs-3g-2022.5.17-1.fc36 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: ntfs-3g-system-compression-1.0-9.fc36 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: ntfs-3g-2022.5.17-1.fc36 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: ntfs-3g-2022.5.17-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
Heap overflow in ntfsck · Issue #16 · tuxera/ntfs-3g · GitHub MISC github.com
oss-security - OPEN SOURCE NTFS-3G SECURITY ADVISORY NTFS3G-SA-2022-0001 MLIST www.openwall.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: ntfs-3g-system-compression-1.0-9.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 160599 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for libguestfs-winsupport (ELSA-2023-2179)
  • 160683 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for virt:ol and virt-devel:rhel (ELSA-2023-2757)
  • 179370 Debian Security Update for ntfs-3g (DSA 5160-1)
  • 183868 Debian Security Update for ntfs-3g (CVE-2021-46790)
  • 198820 Ubuntu Security Notification for NTFS-3G Vulnerabilities (USN-5463-1)
  • 241466 Red Hat Update for libguestfs-winsupport (RHSA-2023:2179)
  • 241506 Red Hat Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security (RHSA-2023:2757)
  • 282832 Fedora Security Update for ntfs (FEDORA-2022-8f775872c9)
  • 282836 Fedora Security Update for ntfs (FEDORA-2022-13bc8c91b0)
  • 282864 Fedora Security Update for ntfs (FEDORA-2022-1176b501f0)
  • 282865 Fedora Security Update for ntfs (FEDORA-2022-8fa7e5aeaf)
  • 378706 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0082)
  • 502227 Alpine Linux Security Update for ntfs-3g
  • 504220 Alpine Linux Security Update for ntfs-3g
  • 752477 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs (SUSE-SU-2022:2836-1)
  • 901814 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for ntfs-3g (9597)
  • 902293 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for ntfs-3g (9597-1)
  • 941037 AlmaLinux Security Update for libguestfs-winsupport (ALSA-2023:2179)
  • 941115 AlmaLinux Security Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (ALSA-2023:2757)
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