CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-5159

Published: Oct 01, 2007 | Modified: Sep 05, 2008
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

The ntfs-3g package before 1.913-2.fc7 in Fedora 7, and an ntfs-3g package in Ubuntu 7.10/Gutsy, assign incorrect permissions (setuid root) to mount.ntfs-3g, which allows local users with fuse group membership to read from and write to arbitrary block devices, possibly involving a file descriptor leak.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Fedora Redhat 7 (including) 7 (including)
Ntfs-3g Ubuntu edgy *
Ntfs-3g Ubuntu feisty *
Ntfs-3g Ubuntu gutsy *
Ntfs-3g Ubuntu upstream *

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