cve-2015-6240
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-06-07 20:00
Modified
2024-08-06 07:15
Severity ?
Summary
The chroot, jail, and zone connection plugins in ansible before 1.9.2 allow local users to escape a restricted environment via a symlink attack.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/17/10Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243468Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/952166f48eb0f5797b75b160fd156bbe1e8fc647Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/ca2f2c4ebd7b5e097eab0a710f79c1f63badf95bPatch
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00016.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/17/10Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243468Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/952166f48eb0f5797b75b160fd156bbe1e8fc647Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/ca2f2c4ebd7b5e097eab0a710f79c1f63badf95bPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00016.html
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