🛡️ SUSE-SU-2021:2965-1 — ntfs-3g-ntfsprogs (CVE-2021-33285 +21 more)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Security update for ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs

This update for ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs fixes the following issues:

Update to version 2021.8.22 (bsc#1189720):

  • Signalled support of UTIME_OMIT to external libfuse2
  • Updated the repository change in the README
  • Fixed vulnerability threats caused by maliciously tampered

NTFS partitions

  • Security fixes: CVE-2021-33285, CVE-2021-33286, CVE-2021-33287,

CVE-2021-33289, CVE-2021-35266, CVE-2021-35267, CVE-2021-35268,

CVE-2021-35269, CVE-2021-39251, CVE-2021-39252, CVE-2021-39253,

CVE_2021-39254, CVE-2021-39255, CVE-2021-39256, CVE-2021-39257,

CVE-2021-39258, CVE-2021-39259, CVE-2021-39260, CVE-2021-39261,

CVE-2021-39262, CVE-2021-39263.

Changes in version 2017.3.23:

  • Delegated processing of special reparse points to external plugins
  • Allowed kernel cacheing by lowntfs-3g when not using Posix ACLs
  • Enabled fallback to read-only mount when the volume is hibernated
  • Made a full check for whether an extended attribute is allowed
  • Moved secaudit and usermap to ntfsprogs (now ntfssecaudit and ntfsusermap)
  • Enabled encoding broken UTF-16 into broken UTF-8
  • Autoconfigured selecting <sys/sysmacros.h> vs <sys/mkdev>
  • Allowed using the full library API on systems without extended attributes support
  • Fixed DISABLE_PLUGINS as the condition for not using plugins
  • Corrected validation of multi sector transfer protected records
  • Denied creating/removing files from $Extend
  • Returned the size of locale encoded target as the size of symlinks

Changes in version 2016.2.22:

  • Changes to NTFS-3G driver:
  • Write as much data as possible in compressed attribute pwrite
  • Fixed getting space for making an index non resident
  • Alleviated constraints relative to reparse points
  • Fixed special case of decompressing a runlist
  • Fixed returning the trimming count to fstrim()
  • Fixed the range of valid subauthority counts in a SID
  • Updated the read-only flag even when the security attribute was cached
  • Defended against reusing data from an invalid MFT record
  • Simplified NTFS ACLs when group same as owner and same permission as world
  • Packed/unpacked st_rdev transported as 32-bits on Solaris 64-bits
  • Zero uninitialized bytes before writing compressed data
  • Clear the environment when starting mount or umount
  • Implemented rewinding a directory in lowntfs-3g
  • Use incremental offsets when reading a directory in lowntfs-3g
  • Changes to mkntfs:
  • Make installing mkntfs /sbin symlinks dependent on ENABLE_MOUNT_HELPER
  • Mention the starting sector when it overflows in mkntfs
  • Upgraded the upper-case table to same as Windows 7, 8 and 10
  • Changes to ntfsresize:
  • Fixed relocating the MFT runlists
  • Decode the full list of bad clusters
  • Fixed resizing an extended bad cluster list
  • Changes to ntfsclone:
  • Decoded the full list of bad clusters
  • Changes to ntfsinfo:
  • Displayed reparse point information
  • Changes to ntfsdecrypt:
  • Fixed DESX decryption
  • Changes to ntfswipe:
  • Added clarifications about several options to the manual
  • New ntfsprogs tool:
  • Included ntfsrecover to recover the updates committed by Windows (experimental)
  • Overall:
  • Made a general cleanup of endianness types for easier checks

Changes in version 2015.3.14:

  • ntfs-3g: Fixed inserting a new ACL after wiping out by chkdsk
  • ntfs-3g: Fixed Windows-type inheritance
  • ntfs-3g: Fixed ignoring the umask mount option when permissions are used
  • ntfs-3g: Fixed checking permissions when Posix ACLs are compiled in but not enabled
  • ntfs-3g: Disabled option remove_hiberfile on read-only mounts
  • ntfs-3g: Implemented an extended attribute to get/set EAs
  • ntfs-3g: Avoid full runlist updating in more situations
  • ntfs-3g: Update ctime after setting an ACL
  • ntfs-3g: Use MFT record 15 for the first extent to MFT:DATA
  • ntfs-3g: Ignore the sloppy mount option (-s)
  • ntfs-3g: Implemented FITRIM (fstrim) ioctl
  • ntfs-3g: Reengineered the compression algorithm
  • ntfsprogs: Added manuals for ntfsdecrypt, ntfswipe, ntfstruncate and ntfsfallocate

Affected software

SUSE-SU-2021:2965-1 is recorded against 1 package.

  • ntfs-3g-ntfsprogs (fixed in 2021.8.22-5.9.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 7 September 2021 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2021-09-07
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-02-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ntfs-3g-ntfsprogs 2021.8.22-5.9.1

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