CVE-2022-40284

Summary

CVECVE-2022-40284
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-11-06 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:52:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-120

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 35 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 36 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 37 All All All
Application Tuxera Ntfs-3g All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: ntfs-3g-2022.10.3-1.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
oss-security - OPEN SOURCE NTFS-3G SECURITY ADVISORY NTFS3G-SA-2022-0003 MISC www.openwall.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 3201-1] ntfs-3g security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: ntfs-3g-2022.10.3-1.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Releases · tuxera/ntfs-3g · GitHub MISC github.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: ntfs-3g-2022.10.3-1.fc36 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: ntfs-3g-2022.10.3-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 35 Update: ntfs-3g-2022.10.3-1.fc35 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 36 Update: ntfs-3g-2022.10.3-1.fc36 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
NTFS-3G: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202301-01) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 160935 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for virt:ol and virt-devel:rhel (ELSA-2023-5264)
  • 161030 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for libguestfs-winsupport (ELSA-2023-6167)
  • 181189 Debian Security Update for ntfs-3g (DSA 5270-1)
  • 181566 Debian Security Update for ntfs-3g (DLA 3201-1)
  • 181891 Debian Security Update for ntfs-3g (CVE-2022-40284)
  • 199015 Ubuntu Security Notification for NTFS-3G Vulnerability (USN-5711-1)
  • 242071 Red Hat Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (RHSA-2023:5264)
  • 242077 Red Hat Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (RHSA-2023:5239)
  • 242144 Red Hat Update for virt:rhel (RHSA-2023:5587)
  • 242190 Red Hat Update for virt:rhel (RHSA-2023:5796)
  • 242248 Red Hat Update for libguestfs-winsupport (RHSA-2023:6168)
  • 242352 Red Hat Update for libguestfs-winsupport (RHSA-2023:6167)
  • 242861 Red Hat Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (RHSA-2024:0404)
  • 283373 Fedora Security Update for ntfs (FEDORA-2022-4915124227)
  • 283374 Fedora Security Update for ntfs (FEDORA-2022-14f11bfc73)
  • 284293 Fedora Security Update for ntfs (FEDORA-2022-243616c548)
  • 378927 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0125)
  • 502749 Alpine Linux Security Update for ntfs-3g
  • 710698 Gentoo Linux NTFS-3G Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202301-01)
  • 752760 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs (SUSE-SU-2022:3865-1)
  • 904481 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for ntfs-3g (11388)
  • 904641 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for ntfs-3g (11388-1)
  • 941271 AlmaLinux Security Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (ALSA-2023:5264)
  • 941331 AlmaLinux Security Update for libguestfs-winsupport (ALSA-2023:6167)
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