CVE-2007-5159
EPSS 0.05%Published: 10/1/2007Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2007-5159
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/ntfs-3gfrom 0, < 1:1.913-2