CVE-2007-5159 (GCVE-0-2007-5159)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-10-01 00:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 18:24
VLAI?
Summary
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.
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CWE
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References
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=298651 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-li… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://secunia.com/advisories/26938 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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