CVE-2007-5159

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    CVE-2007-5159

    Published: 1 Oct 2007Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/26938, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=298651, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2007-September/msg00163.html, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00368.html

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High