NTFS-3G before 75dcdc2 has a use-after-free in ntfs_uppercase_mbs in libntfs-3g/unistr.c. NOTE: discussion suggests that exploitation would be challenging.

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8192-1 advisory.

    Jeffrey Bencteux discovered that NTFS-3G incorrectly handled certain UTF-8 sequences. An attacker could     use this issue to cause NTFS-3G to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or to execute arbitrary code.
    This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2023-52890)

    Andrea Bocchetti discovered that NTFS-3G incorrectly handled certain security descriptors. An attacker     could use this issue to cause NTFS-3G to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or to execute arbitrary     code. (CVE-2026-40706)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of Tencent Linux installed on the remote TencentOS Server 4 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the TSSA-2024:0504 advisory.

    Package updates are available for TencentOS Server 4 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

    CVE-2023-52890:
    NTFS-3G before 75dcdc2 has a use-after-free in ntfs_uppercase_mbs in libntfs-3g/unistr.c. NOTE: discussion     suggests that exploitation would be challenging.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Tencent Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - NTFS-3G before 75dcdc2 has a use-after-free in ntfs_uppercase_mbs in libntfs-3g/unistr.c. NOTE: discussion     suggests that exploitation would be challenging. (CVE-2023-52890)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of ntfs-3g installed on the remote Azure Linux 3.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2023-52890 advisory.

  - NTFS-3G before 75dcdc2 has a use-after-free in ntfs_uppercase_mbs in libntfs-3g/unistr.c. NOTE: discussion     suggests that exploitation would be challenging. (CVE-2023-52890)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of ntfs-3g installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2023-52890 advisory.

  - NTFS-3G before 75dcdc2 has a use-after-free in ntfs_uppercase_mbs in libntfs-3g/unistr.c. NOTE: discussion     suggests that exploitation would be challenging. (CVE-2023-52890)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLED_SAP12 / SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2074-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2023-52890: Fixed use-after-free in 'ntfs_uppercase_mbs' in unistr.c (bsc#1226007).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
309185	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 : NTFS-3G vulnerabilities (USN-8192-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
276441	TencentOS Server 4: ntfs-3g (TSSA-2024:0504)	Nessus	Tencent Local Security Checks	medium
256685	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-52890	Nessus	Misc.	medium
215949	Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: ntfs-3g (CVE-2023-52890)	Nessus	Azure Linux Local Security Checks	medium
201800	CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: ntfs-3g (CVE-2023-52890)	Nessus	MarinerOS Local Security Checks	medium
200731	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs (SUSE-SU-2024:2074-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

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