CVE-2021-39255: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A crafted NTFS image can trigger an out-of-bounds read, caused by an invalid attribute in ntfs_attr_find_in_attrdef, in NTFS-3G < 2021.8.22.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only; version 11.0 only
• Tuxera Ntfs-3g: before 2021.8.22 (fixed in 2021.8.22)

Published 2021-09-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.