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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2019-c9cd2d9a6c
2019-04-16 00:44:30.626634
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Name : ntfs-3g
Product : Fedora EPEL 7
Version : 2017.3.23
Release : 11.el7
URL :
http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
Summary : Linux NTFS userspace driver
Description :
NTFS-3G is a stable, open source, GPL licensed, POSIX, read/write NTFS
driver for Linux and many other operating systems. It provides safe
handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows
Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 NTFS file systems. NTFS-3G can
create, remove, rename, move files, directories, hard links, and streams;
it can read and write normal and transparently compressed files, including
streams and sparse files; it can handle special files like symbolic links,
devices, and FIFOs, ACL, extended attributes; moreover it provides full
file access right and ownership support.
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Update Information:
Fix for CVE-2019-9755.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1691624 - CVE-2019-9755 ntfs-3g: heap-based buffer overflow leads to local
root privilege escalation
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1691624
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update ntfs-3g' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "YUM", available at
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7\
/html/System_Administrators_Guide/ch-yum.html
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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