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NTFS-3G Driver For FUSE-Based NTFS Support Updated For Security Fixes

Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Storage on 2 June 2022 at 05:32 AM EDT. 6 Comments
Tuxera has issued its first new release of the NTFS-3G FUSE driver for NTFS read/write support on Linux and other platforms since last August's prior stable release. This new version was issued last week in order to ship security fixes.

NTFS-3G 2022.5.17 was released last week on 26 May as a security release. In particular, there are improved defenses against maliciously-tampered NTFS partitions and against improper use of options. Plus some documentation updates.

The security fixes in this NTFS-3G driver update include hardening the checking of the directory offset requested by a readdir call, to make sure a valid offset is requested as until now it didn't fend off negative offsets. There is also a fix for the

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