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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-5191 Detail

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.


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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (06/01/2009)

Updates are available to address this issue: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0969.html

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

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-252 Unchecked Return Value cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-5191
NVD Published Date:
10/04/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.