CVE-2021-39263: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A crafted NTFS image can trigger a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by an unsanitized attribute in ntfs_get_attribute_value, 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.