CVE-2021-33285

HIGH

NTFS-3G <2021.8.22 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In NTFS-3G versions < 2021.8.22, when a specially crafted NTFS attribute is supplied to the function ntfs_get_attribute_value, a heap buffer overflow can occur allowing for memory disclosure or denial of service. The vulnerability is caused by an out-of-bound buffer access which can be triggered by mounting a crafted ntfs partition. The root cause is a missing consistency check after reading an MFT record : the "bytes_in_use" field should be less than the "bytes_allocated" field. When it is not, the parsing of the records proceeds into the wild.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0004
EPSS Percentile 11.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-20 CWE-787
Status published
Products (9)
debian/debian_linux 9.0
debian/debian_linux 10.0
debian/debian_linux 11.0
fedoraproject/fedora 33
fedoraproject/fedora 34
fedoraproject/fedora 35
redhat/enterprise_linux 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 8.0 (2 CPE variants)
tuxera/ntfs-3g < 2021.8.22
Published Sep 07, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026