After six and a half years of development, the release of the NTFS-3G package 2026.2.25 has been announced, featuring a free driver that operates in user space using the FUSE mechanism, along with a suite of ntfsprogs utilities for manipulating NTFS partitions. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license.
The driver supports reading and writing data on NTFS partitions and can operate on a wide range of operating systems that support FUSE, including Linux, Android, macOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, QNX, and Haiku. The driver's implementation of the NTFS file system is fully compatible with Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7/8/10/11. The ntfsprogs utility suite allows for operations such as creating NTFS partitions, integrity checks, cloning, resizing, and recovering deleted files. Common components for working with NTFS, used in both the driver and utilities, have been moved to a separate library.
The new version mainly includes accumulated bug fixes from recent years. The ntfsclone utility now allows resizing the NTFS boot sector when restoring images. The libdl library has been excluded from dependencies when built without external plugins. The ntfsinfo utility now implements output of log status information when saving dumps with metadata.
A vulnerability (CVE-2026-40706) leading to a buffer overflow in the ntfs_build_permissions_posix() function has been fixed, which manifested when enabling POSIX ACL support. Additionally, the changelog includes several fixes that are not explicitly marked as vulnerabilities but may potentially pose security issues—several bugs leading to accesses to freed memory and buffer overflows when forming backup names.
Source: opennet.ru
