CVE-2007-5159

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-5159
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2007-5159.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2007-5159
Downstream
Published
2007-10-01T05:17:00Z
Modified
2025-08-09T20:01:26Z
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages