Vulnerability CVE-2007-5159
Published: 2007-10-01   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

Type:

CWE-264

 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.6/10
6.4/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Ntfs-3g -> Ntfs-3g 

 References:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00368.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2007-September/msg00163.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=298651
http://secunia.com/advisories/26938
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