CVE-2007-5159: Ntfs-3g

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Ntfs-3g Ntfs-3g: up to and including 1.913-1.fc7; any version

Published 2007-10-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.