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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs (SUSE-SU-2021:2965-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 153124

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:2965-1 advisory.

 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

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

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

Solution

Update the affected libntfs-3g-devel, libntfs-3g84, ntfs-3g and / or ntfsprogs packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189720

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-0358

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9755

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33285

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33286

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33287

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-33289

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35266

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35267

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35268

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-35269

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-39251

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-39252

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-39253

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-39255

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-39256

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-39257

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-39258

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-39259

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-39260

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-39261

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-39262

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-39263

http://www.nessus.org/u?ba396595

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 153124

File Name: suse_SU-2021-2965-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/8/2021

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-0358

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-39263

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ntfsprogs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libntfs-3g-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libntfs-3g84, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ntfs-3g

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/7/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/3/2017

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Metasploit (Debian/Ubuntu ntfs-3g Local Privilege Escalation)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-0358, CVE-2019-9755, 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-2021-39255, CVE-2021-39256, CVE-2021-39257, CVE-2021-39258, CVE-2021-39259, CVE-2021-39260, CVE-2021-39261, CVE-2021-39262, CVE-2021-39263

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2021:2965-1