[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: ntfs-3g-1.913-2.fc7
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-2295
2007-09-25 08:29:01
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Name : ntfs-3g
Product : Fedora 7
Version : 1.913
Release : 2.fc7
URL : http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
Summary : Linux NTFS userspace driver
Description :
The ntfs-3g driver is an open source, GPL licensed, third generation
Linux NTFS driver. It provides full read-write access to NTFS, excluding
access to encrypted files, writing compressed files, changing file
ownership, access right.
Technically it’s based on and a major improvement to the third
generation Linux NTFS driver, ntfsmount. The improvements include
functionality, quality and performance enhancements.
ntfs-3g features are being merged to ntfsmount. In the meanwhile,
ntfs-3g is currently the only free, as in either speech or beer, NTFS
driver for Linux that supports unlimited file creation and deletion.
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Update Information:
It was discovered that members of the group fuse can get access to devices which they
normally should not have access to. For ntfs-3g mounts, this was because
/sbin/mount.ntfs-3g was setuid root. This update fixes /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g so that it
is no longer has the setuid bit enabled. The fuse package is also being updated to correct
an error in the previous testing package which incorrectly changed the permissions on
/dev/fuse.
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ChangeLog:
* Thu Sep 20 2007 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> 2:1.913-2
- don't set /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g setuid
* Mon Sep 17 2007 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> 2:1.913-1
- bump to 1.913
* Sun Aug 26 2007 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> 2:1.826-1
- bump to 1.826
- glibc27 patch is upstreamed
* Fri Aug 24 2007 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> 2:1.810-1
- bump to 1.810
- fix license tag
- rebuild for ppc32
* Sun Jul 22 2007 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> 2:1.710-1
- bump to 1.710
- add compat symlinks
* Wed Jun 27 2007 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat.com> 2:1.616-1
- bump to 1.616
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #298651 - ntfs-3g allows access to partition the users normally should not
have access to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=298651
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Updated packages:
a36eea819a0ac9ef4c5ecd7b2bcb747c812fde91 ntfs-3g-debuginfo-1.913-2.fc7.ppc64.rpm
f931506a81123e29b3f079845d4a1b3fa5a83bc5 ntfs-3g-devel-1.913-2.fc7.ppc64.rpm
82362930bbd37197203c6c075ea96586e74c9059 ntfs-3g-1.913-2.fc7.ppc64.rpm
3c14b64483d6153d115319584f84dcd7d19439a9 ntfs-3g-1.913-2.fc7.i386.rpm
fe8b4fd7c7bd53b1dea6e1ca547b757438ff143f ntfs-3g-devel-1.913-2.fc7.i386.rpm
b255ad854501109a4f7733b6d68373fda98097dd ntfs-3g-debuginfo-1.913-2.fc7.i386.rpm
8c52a5245090e488c5f13c4a3189ae50bb920c2a ntfs-3g-devel-1.913-2.fc7.x86_64.rpm
76dc464a0ca71518d3297e512c37f1dfdc99219a ntfs-3g-debuginfo-1.913-2.fc7.x86_64.rpm
5468d34999aa098d247dc40c632a289a4b7a546b ntfs-3g-1.913-2.fc7.x86_64.rpm
56d5eaafe241b8753abf2ab52e555caf00f0ddd6 ntfs-3g-debuginfo-1.913-2.fc7.ppc.rpm
7bad483414cbbb6f45958139a79c56c32fb697b8 ntfs-3g-devel-1.913-2.fc7.ppc.rpm
f23111e33f56a028049522df48e7ee9fff4172d0 ntfs-3g-1.913-2.fc7.ppc.rpm
3f34f6d3df64d6bcde86fd0ee356ae7b89055af4 ntfs-3g-1.913-2.fc7.src.rpm
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update ntfs-3g'
at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software
with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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