CVE-2015-5701 (GCVE-0-2015-5701)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-08-25 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:59
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
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Assigner
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