CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-5700
6.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-08-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:C/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
mktexlsr revision 22855 through revision 36625 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
Affected configurations
• tug texlive 20100722
• tug texlive 20110705
• tug texlive 20120701
• tug texlive 20130530
• tug texlive 20140525
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- 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://usn.ubuntu.com/3788-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- 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
- 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://usn.ubuntu.com/3788-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- 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