CVE-2021-39257

medium

Description

A crafted NTFS image with an unallocated bitmap can lead to a endless recursive function call chain (starting from ntfs_attr_pwrite), causing stack consumption in NTFS-3G < 2021.8.22.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4971

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202301-01

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00013.html

https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/security/advisories/GHSA-q759-8j5v-q5jp

https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/releases

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-09-07

Updated: 2023-01-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H