CVE-2007-5159

high

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.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00368.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2007-September/msg00163.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=298651

http://secunia.com/advisories/26938

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-10-01

Updated: 2008-09-05

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High