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Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE-2007-5191

UNKNOWN

mount and umount in util-linux and loop-aes-utils call the setuid and setgid functions in the wrong order and do not check the return values, which might allow attackers to gain privileges via helpers such as mount

Published Oct 4, 2007

Modified 1 years ago

Details

mount and umount in util-linux and loop-aes-utils call the setuid and setgid functions in the wrong order and do not check the return values, which might allow attackers to gain privileges via helpers such as mount.nfs.

References

WEBhttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195390 ADVISORYhttp://frontal2.mandriva.com/en/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:198 WEBhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=ebbeb2c7ac1b00b6083905957837a271e80b187e ADVISORYhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-10/msg00008.html WEBhttp://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000002.html ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/27104 ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/27122 ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/27145 ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/27188 ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/27283 ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/27354 ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/27399 ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/27687 ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/28348 ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/28349 ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/28368 ADVISORYhttp://secunia.com/advisories/28469 ADVISORYhttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200710-18.xml WEBhttp://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-023.htm ADVISORYhttp://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1449 ADVISORYhttp://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1450 ADVISORYhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0969.html WEBhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485936/100/0/threaded WEBhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486859/100/0/threaded WEBhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25973 WEBhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018782 ADVISORYhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-533-1 WEBhttp://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2008-0001.html WEBhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3417 WEBhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0064 WEBhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=320041 WEBhttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1757 WEBhttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10101 ADVISORYhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-5191 ADVISORYhttps://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-October/msg00144.html

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v2.0

7.2

Exploitability

Access Vector

LocalAV:L

Access Complexity

LowAC:L

Authentication

NoneAu:N

Impact

Confidentiality

CompleteC:C

Integrity

CompleteI:C

Availability

CompleteA:C

7.2/AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Ecosystems

Timeline

PublishedOct 4, 2007

ModifiedAug 7, 2024

CVE-2007-5191 | Mondoo Vulnerability Intelligence