more than four years since the last release of Published Release package NTFS-3G 2021.8.22 , including a free driver working in the user space using the FUSE mechanism, and the NTFSprogs utility kit for Manipulations with NTFS sections. Project code extends under the GPLV2 license.
The driver supports reading and writing data to NTFS sections and can work in a wide range of operating systems that support fuse , in including in Linux, Android, MacOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, QNX and Haiku. The driver provided by the NTFS file system is fully compatible with Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10. The NTFSPROGS utility allows you to perform such operations as creating NTFS partitions. , Check integrity, cloning, resizing and restore remote files. Common components for working with NTFS used in the driver and utilities are made in a separate library.
Issue Noteworth Correction 21 vulnerabilities . Vulnerabilities are caused by buffer overflows during the processing of various metadata and allow you to organize the execution of the code when mounting a specially decorated image NTFS (including the attack can be performed when connecting the unverified external drive). If you have an attacking local access to the system in which the NTFS-3G executable file is set to the Setuid root flag, vulnerabilities can also be used to increase its privileges.
From non-security changes marked the code bases of extended and stable editions of NTFS-3G, with the transfer of project development on GitHub . The new release also includes corrections of accumulated errors and eliminated problems when compiling with old LIBFUSE issues. Separately, the developers analyzed the NTFS-3G low performance comments. The analysis showed that performance problems are associated, as a rule, with delivery in distributions of outdated versions of the project or using incorrect default settings (mounting without the “big_writes” option, without which the file transfer rate is reduced 3-4 times). In accordance with the tests conducted by the developer team, the NTFS-3G performance lags behind EXT4 by only 15-20%.