CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-5159

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2007-10-01 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-10-01
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

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 configurations

• ntfs-3g ntfs-3g (<= 1.913-1.fc7) • ntfs-3g ntfs-3g

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Referenced by CWE · observed example (2)

  • CWE-250 Execution with Unnecessary Privileges weakness
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management weakness

References