CVE-2007-5159

CVE-2007-5159 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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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