CVE-2007-5191 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2007-5191 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.2
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 327022 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2007:022, published Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 16:11:59 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:22:45 2023