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FKIE_CVE-2015-5700

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-08-25 18:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:29
Severity
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
Summary
mktexlsr revision 22855 through revision 36625 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/30/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775139Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181167Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3788-1/
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?r1=19613&r2=22885Patch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?view=logVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/30/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775139Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181167Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3788-1/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?r1=19613&r2=22885Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?view=logVendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
tug texlive 20100722
tug texlive 20110705
tug texlive 20120701
tug texlive 20130530
tug texlive 20140525
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