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Review: ntfs-3g 1:2026.7.7-1

Package Information

Descriptionread/write NTFS driver for FUSE

NTFS-3G uses FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) to provide support for the NTFS filesystem used by Microsoft Windows.

MaintainerLaszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org>
Changed ByLaszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org>
Sponsorgcs@debian.org
Distributionexperimental
Architecturelinux-any
Closes#1142144
Popcon Installs140703
Binary NEWYes (binary-only upload)
Trackerhttps://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ntfs-3g
Uploaded20 days ago

New Package Report

.changes
DateWed, 15 Jul 2026 22:16:05 +0200
Sourcentfs-3g
Version1:2026.7.7-1
Changed-ByLaszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
Architecturesource amd64
Distributionexperimental
Changelog
ntfs-3g (1:2026.7.7-1) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream release (closes: #1142144):
     - fixes CVE-2026-42616: heap buffer overflow in cat(),
     - fixes CVE-2026-42617: heap buffer overflow in ntfs_ir_to_ib(),
     - fixes CVE-2026-42618: heap buffer overflow in ntfs_decompress(),
     - fixes CVE-2026-46569: missing range check in ntfs_ib_copy_tail(),
     - fixes CVE-2026-46570: heap memory corruption in ntfs_index_walk_down(),
     - fixes CVE-2026-46571: out of bounds read in ntfs_fix_file_name(),
     - fixes CVE-2026-46572: heap buffer overflow in ntfs_ib_cut_tail(),
     - fixes CVE-2026-56135: heap buffer overflow in build_inherited_id(),
     - fixes CVE-2026-56136: out of bounds memmove in ntfs_ir_nill().
   * Update copyright file.
   * Update Standards-Version to 4.7.2 .
   * Library transition from libntfs-3g89 to libntfs-3g90 .
.dsc
Priorityoptional
Componentmain
Package-Listlibntfs-3g90 deb libs optional arch=linux-any
ntfs-3g deb otherosfs optional arch=linux-any
ntfs-3g-dev deb libdevel optional arch=linux-any
ntfs-3g-udeb udeb debian-installer optional arch=linux-any
Sectionlibs
debian/copyright
Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: ntfs-3g
Upstream-Contact: https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/issues
Source: https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g

Files: *
Copyright: 2000-2014 ntfs-3g Development Team
License: GPL-2+

Files: include/fuse-lite/* libfuse-lite/*
Copyright: 2000-2013 ntfs-3g Development Team
License: LGPL-2
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
 by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of the License.
 .
 On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 version 2 can be found in the file `/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2'.

Files: include/fuse-lite/fuse_kernel.h
Copyright: 2001-2007  Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
License: GPL or BSD-2-Clause

Files: libfuse-lite/fusermount.c
Copyright: 2001-2007  Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
License: GPL

Files: ntfsprogs/boot.c
Copyright:  1991 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@klaava.helsinki.fi>
 1992-1993 Remy Card <card@masi.ibp.fr>
 1993-1994 David Hudson <dave@humbug.demon.co.uk>
 1998 H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
 1998-2005 Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
 2008-2014 Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>
 2015 Andreas Bombe <aeb@debian.org>
License: GPL-3+
 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.
 .
 On Debian systems, the full text of the GNU General Public License
 version 3 can be found in the file `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3`.

Files: debian/*
Copyright: 2014-     Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs@debian.org>,
 2011-2014 Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>,
 2006-2010 Adam Cecile <gandalf@le-vert.net>
License: GPL-2+

License: BSD-2-Clause
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
 modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
 are met:
 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
 .
 THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
 "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
 LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
 A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
 HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
 INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING,
 BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS
 OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED
 AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
 LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY
 WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY
 OF SUCH DAMAGE.

License: GPL
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
 any later version.
 .
 On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
 License, version 1, can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL`.

License: GPL-2+
 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.
 .
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 .
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 .
 The complete text of the GNU General Public License
 can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 file.

License: LGPL-2+
 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.
 .
 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
 GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
 .
 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 .
 The complete text of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2 file.

Review Information

accepted — allocated to awm 19 days ago, started 19 days ago, completed 19 days ago.

Final Comment

Hi,

Please review the list of missing authors and add these details to debian/copyright for the next upload if you believe this is valid.

Thanks!

Public Notes

19 days ago ● public

Missed Author Check

Command: dnq author-check -prepare
Exit code: 0

Author check: scanned 181 files.

NOT IN debian/copyright (37):

  Alon Bar-Lev
    configure.ac:8

  Anton Altaparmakov
    configure.ac:5
    include/ntfs-3g/attrib.h:4
    include/ntfs-3g/attrlist.h:5
    include/ntfs-3g/bitmap.h:4
    include/ntfs-3g/bootsect.h:5
    ... and 78 more files

  Anton Altaparmakov\n")
    ntfsprogs/mkntfs.c:286
    ntfsprogs/ntfscat.c:67
    ntfsprogs/ntfscluster.c:70
    ntfsprogs/ntfscp.c:110
    ntfsprogs/ntfsdecrypt.c:157
    ... and 2 more files

  Bernhard Kaindl
    libntfs-3g/unistr.c:7

  Carmelo Kintana
    ntfsprogs/ntfsls.c:7

  Carmelo Kintana\n")
    ntfsprogs/ntfsls.c:146

  Cristian Klein
    ntfsprogs/ntfsinfo.c:10

  Eric Biggers
    libntfs-3g/compress.c:9

  Erik Larsson
    libntfs-3g/attrib.c:9
    src/lowntfs-3g.c:266
    src/lowntfs-3g.c:8
    src/ntfs-3g.c:201
    src/ntfs-3g.c:8
    ... and 2 more files

  Erik Sornes
    ntfsprogs/mkntfs.c:7

  Erik Sornes\n")
    ntfsprogs/mkntfs.c:289

  Giang Nguyen
    ntfsprogs/ntfsls.c:8

  Giang Nguyen\n")
    ntfsprogs/ntfsls.c:147

  Hil Liao
    ntfsprogs/ntfscp.c:6

  Hil Liao\n")
    ntfsprogs/ntfscp.c:111

  Holger Ohmacht
    ntfsprogs/ntfsundelete.c:392
    ntfsprogs/ntfsundelete.c:5

  Jan Kratochvil
    configure.ac:6

  Jean-Pierre Andre
    include/ntfs-3g/acls.h:3
    include/ntfs-3g/attrib.h:7
    include/ntfs-3g/cache.h:4
    include/ntfs-3g/compat.h:7
    include/ntfs-3g/ea.h:3
    ... and 71 more files

  Jean-Pierre Andre\n")
    ntfsprogs/mkntfs.c:291
    ntfsprogs/ntfscp.c:112
    ntfsprogs/ntfsdecrypt.c:158
    ntfsprogs/ntfsrecover.c:4109
    ntfsprogs/ntfsresize.c:409
    ... and 2 more files

  Jean-Pierre Andre\n\n")
    ntfsprogs/ntfsclone.c:399

  Lode Leroy
    libntfs-3g/win32_io.c:6
    ntfsprogs/ntfsls.c:4
    ntfsprogs/utils.c:6

  Lode Leroy\n")
    ntfsprogs/ntfsls.c:143

  Martin Bene
    include/ntfs-3g/efs.h:3
    libntfs-3g/efs.c:6

  Matthew J. Fanto
    ntfsprogs/ntfsinfo.c:4
    ntfsprogs/ntfslabel.c:4

  Per Olofsson
    ntfsprogs/ntfsclone.8.in:3
    ntfsprogs/ntfsclone.c:7

  Red Hat, Inc
    libntfs-3g/ioctl.c:7

  Richard Russon
    include/ntfs-3g/bitmap.h:5
    include/ntfs-3g/compat.h:4
    include/ntfs-3g/dir.h:6
    include/ntfs-3g/index.h:5
    include/ntfs-3g/inode.h:6
    ... and 48 more files

  Richard Russon\n")
    ntfsprogs/mkntfs.c:287
    ntfsprogs/ntfscat.c:66
    ntfsprogs/ntfscluster.c:69
    ntfsprogs/ntfsls.c:145
    ntfsprogs/ntfsmove.c:68
    ... and 2 more files

  Sun Microsystems, Inc
    libntfs-3g/compat.c:161
    libntfs-3g/compat.c:74

  Szabolcs Szakacsits
    configure.ac:7
    include/ntfs-3g/attrib.h:6
    include/ntfs-3g/bootsect.h:6
    include/ntfs-3g/compat.h:6
    include/ntfs-3g/dir.h:7
    ... and 50 more files

  Szabolcs Szakacsits\n")
    ntfsprogs/mkntfs.c:288
    ntfsprogs/ntfscat.c:68
    ntfsprogs/ntfscluster.c:71
    ntfsprogs/ntfsresize.c:405

  Theodore Ts'o
    libntfs-3g/device.c:525

  Tuxera Inc
    include/ntfs-3g/device.h:5
    libntfs-3g/device.c:7

  Yura Pakhuchiy
    include/ntfs-3g/attrib.h:5
    include/ntfs-3g/attrlist.h:6
    include/ntfs-3g/collate.h:6
    include/ntfs-3g/dir.h:5
    include/ntfs-3g/index.h:6
    ... and 40 more files

  Yura Pakhuchiy\n")
    ntfsprogs/mkntfs.c:290
    ntfsprogs/ntfscat.c:69
    ntfsprogs/ntfscp.c:109
    ntfsprogs/ntfsresize.c:408
    ntfsprogs/ntfswipe.c:153

  Yuval Fledel
    libntfs-3g/win32_io.c:8
    ntfsprogs/ntfsck.c:4
    ntfsprogs/ntfsdecrypt.c:4
    ntfsprogs/ntfsinfo.c:8
    src/lowntfs-3g.c:5
    ... and 1 more file

  Yuval Fledel\n")
    ntfsprogs/ntfsdecrypt.c:156

Result: ATTENTION REQUIRED — 37 authors not in debian/copyright

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