[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: ntfs-3g-2017.3.23-11.fc29
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2019-e396eacd61
2019-04-04 03:10:37.039307
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Name : ntfs-3g
Product : Fedora 29
Version : 2017.3.23
Release : 11.fc29
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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ChangeLog:
* Fri Mar 29 2019 Tom Callaway <spot(a)fedoraproject.org> - 2:2017.3.23-11
- add upstream fix for CVE-2019-9755
* Mon Mar 11 2019 Kamil P��ral <kparal(a)redhat.com> - 2:2017.3.23-10
- add Recommends: ntfs-3g-system-compression. That allows people with
Windows 10 to read system files.
* Fri Feb 1 2019 Fedora Release Engineering <releng(a)fedoraproject.org> -
2:2017.3.23-9
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild
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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 "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-e396eacd61' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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