CVE-2007-5191

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 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: 2007-10-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-252

Description

mount and umount in util-linux and loop-aes-utils call the setuid and setgid functions in the wrong order and do not check the return values, which might allow attackers to gain privileges via helpers such as mount.nfs.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 6.10, 7.04
Debian Linux: 3.1
Fedoraproject Fedora: 7
util-linux: through 2.13.1.1
Loop-Aes-Utils Project Loop-Aes-Utils: all versions

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195390
http://frontal2.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:198
http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ebbeb2c7ac1b00b6083905957837a271e80b187e
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-10/msg00008.html
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/27104
http://secunia.com/advisories/27122
http://secunia.com/advisories/27145
http://secunia.com/advisories/27188
http://secunia.com/advisories/27283
http://secunia.com/advisories/27354
http://secunia.com/advisories/27399

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