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.
References
Link | Resource |
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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/30/6 | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775139 | Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181167 | Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?r1=19613&r2=22885 | Patch Vendor Advisory |
https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?view=log | Vendor Advisory |
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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
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2017-08-25T18:29:00.903
Modified: 2017-09-12T15:37:34.710
Link: CVE-2015-5701
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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CWE