mktexlsr revision 36855, and before revision 36626 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack. NOTE: this vulnerability exists due to the reversion of a fix of CVE-2015-5700.
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-08-25T18:00:00

Updated: 2017-08-25T17:57:02

Reserved: 2015-07-30T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2015-5701

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-08-25T18:29:00.903

Modified: 2017-09-12T15:37:34.710


Link: CVE-2015-5701

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