CVE-2022-40284

Publication date 31 October 2022

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A buffer overflow was discovered in NTFS-3G before 2022.10.3. Crafted metadata in an NTFS image can cause code execution. A local attacker can exploit this if the ntfs-3g binary is setuid root. A physically proximate attacker can exploit this if NTFS-3G software is configured to execute upon attachment of an external storage device.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ntfs-3g	23.04 lunar	Fixed 1:2022.5.17-1ubuntu1.1
	22.10 kinetic	Fixed 1:2022.5.17-1ubuntu1.1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1:2021.8.22-3ubuntu1.2
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1:2017.3.23AR.3-3ubuntu1.3
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1:2017.3.23-2ubuntu0.18.04.5
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1:2015.3.14AR.1-1ubuntu0.3+esm4
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1:2013.1.13AR.1-2ubuntu2+esm4

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Patch details

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Package	Patch details
ntfs-3g	Upstream: 18bfc67 Upstream: 76c3a79

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H