CVE-2021-39256

State: Published
Severity: 6.7 Medium
Published: Sep 7, 2021
Updated: Dec 2, 2025
Reserved: Aug 17, 2021

Description

A crafted NTFS image can cause a heap-based buffer overflow in ntfs_inode_lookup_by_name in NTFS-3G < 2021.8.22.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.7 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/releases
https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/security/advisories/GHSA-q759-8j5v-q5jp
DSA-4971vendor-advisory
[debian-lts-announce] 20211116 [SECURITY] [DLA 2819-1] ntfs-3g security updatemailing-list
GLSA-202301-01vendor-advisory

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