Vulnerability Details CVE-2007-5159
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 13.3%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 4.6
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26938
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=298651
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2007-September/msg00163.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00368.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26938
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=298651
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2007-September/msg00163.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00368.html