CVE-2007-5159

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-10-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

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 products

ntfs-3g: through 1.913-1.fc7

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

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