CVE-2007-5159

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.6
Exploit probability—
ProductNtfs-3g
PublishedOct 1, 2007
First seenOct 1, 2007

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
ntfs-3g ntfs-3gv ≤ 1.913-1.fc7, No range specified—

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