CVE-2007-5159

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Summary

CVECVE-2007-5159
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2007-10-01 05:17:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.6 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-264 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Ntfs-3g Ntfs-3g All All All All
Application Ntfs-3g Ntfs-3g All All All All
Operating System Redhat Fedora 7 All All All
Operating System Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 7.10 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
298651 – (CVE-2007-5159) ntfs-3g allows access to partition the users normally should not have access to af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
Fedora update for ntfs-3g - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: ntfs-3g-1.913-2.fc7 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Re: fuse (Was Re: early-gdm redux) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
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