CVE-2007-5159 Information

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.

Reference

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