CVE-2026-42618

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-42618
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-42618.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-42618
Aliases
  • GHSA-6whp-3f63-97qw
Downstream
DEBIAN (1)
MGASA (1)
OESA (1)
openSUSE (2)
SUSE (2)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
openSUSE (2)
SUSE (2)
Published
2026-10-07T00:00:00Z
Modified
2026-10-08T02:50:52Z
Severity
  • 7.1 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In NTFS-3G before 2026.7.7, a heap buffer overflow exists in ntfs_decompress() in compress.c that allows an attacker to corrupt one byte of heap memory in the SUID-root ntfs-3g binary by crafting a malicious NTFS image. The overflow is triggered by reading the special crafted file.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "mitre",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/42xxx/CVE-2026-42618.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
d327833ec1d5eb1358b6f2c37139f10a3460944d
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "NTFS-3G"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2026.7.7"
        }
    ],
    "source": "DESCRIPTION"
}

Affected versions

Other
2011_3_26
N0_20061031_BETA
N0_20061115_BETA
N0_20061212_BETA
N0_20061218_BETA
N0_20070102_BETA
N0_20070116_BETA
N0_20070118_BETA
N0_20070207_RC1
N1_0
N1_320_RC
N1_328
N1_411_RC
N1_416
N1_417
N1_516
N1_612_RC
N1_616
N1_710
N1_810
N1_826
N1_910_RC
N1_913
N2006_11_07_011225
N2006_11_08_220332
N2006_11_08_233131
N2006_11_11_005720
N2006_11_11_010308
N2006_11_11_013125
N2006_11_11_220751
N2006_11_14_010037
N2006_11_14_220946
N2009_10_03_095644
N2009_10_03_104125
N2010_10_2
N2010_2_6
N2010_5_16
N2010_5_22
N2010_6_30_RC
N2010_6_31_RC
N2010_7_23_RC
N2010_8_8
PERMISSION_HANDLING_BASE_20070925
R2009_10_5_RC
start
v2011_10_9_RC
v2011_3_26
v2011_3_28_RC
v2011_4_10
v2011_4_11
v2011_4_12
v2012_1_15
v2013_1_13
2014.*
2014.2.15
2015.*
2015.3.13
2015.3.14
2015.3.5
2016.*
2016.2.15
2016.2.22
2017.*
2017.2.15
2017.3.23
2021.*
2021.5.19
2021.8.14
2021.8.22
2022.*
2022.10.3
2022.5.17
2026.*
2026.2.25

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-42618.json"