Bug#445315: CVE-2007-5159 priviledge escalation

[Szabolcs Szakacsits]

Hi,

I added our comments to the origin of the security report:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=298651#c21

Regards,  Szaka

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Bug#445315: CVE-2007-5159 priviledge escalation

[Nico Golde]

Package: ntfs-3g
Severity: grave
Tags: security

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for ntfs-3g.

CVE-2007-5159[0]:
| 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.

If you fix this vulnerability please also include the CVE id
in your changelog entry.

For further information:
[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5159

Kind regards
Nico

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