NTFS-3G could be made to crash or potentially run programs as an administrator if executed with specially crafted arguments.
A heap buffer overflow was discovered in NTFS-3G when executing it with a relative mount point path that is too long. A local attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code as the administrator.
21 March 2019
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
NTFS-3G could be made to crash or potentially run programs as an administrator if executed with specially crafted arguments.
A heap buffer overflow was discovered in NTFS-3G when executing it with a relative mount point path that is too long. A local attacker could potentially exploit this to execute arbitrary code as the administrator.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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