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ghsa-67hr-wg4g-mjjv

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-17 00:11

Modified

2022-05-17 00:11

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

The pg_ctlcluster script in postgresql-common package in Debian wheezy before 134wheezy5, in Debian jessie before 165+deb8u2, in Debian unstable before 178, in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS before 129ubuntu1.2, in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS before 154ubuntu1.1, in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS before 173ubuntu0.1, in Ubuntu 17.04 before 179ubuntu0.1, and in Ubuntu 17.10 before 184ubuntu1.1 allows local users to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on a logfile in /var/log/postgresql.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
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  ],
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    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-59"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2017-12-05T16:29:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "The pg_ctlcluster script in postgresql-common package in Debian wheezy before 134wheezy5, in Debian jessie before 165+deb8u2, in Debian unstable before 178, in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS before 129ubuntu1.2, in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS before 154ubuntu1.1, in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS before 173ubuntu0.1, in Ubuntu 17.04 before 179ubuntu0.1, and in Ubuntu 17.10 before 184ubuntu1.1 allows local users to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on a logfile in /var/log/postgresql.",
  "id": "GHSA-67hr-wg4g-mjjv",
  "modified": "2022-05-17T00:11:40Z",
  "published": "2022-05-17T00:11:40Z",
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      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1255"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-postgresql/postgresql-common.git/commit/?id=c8989206ec360f199400c74f129f7b4cb878c1ee"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/01/msg00002.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
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    },
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    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
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}

cve-2016-1255

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-12-05 16:00

Modified

2024-08-05 22:48

Severity ?

Summary

The pg_ctlcluster script in postgresql-common package in Debian wheezy before 134wheezy5, in Debian jessie before 165+deb8u2, in Debian unstable before 178, in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS before 129ubuntu1.2, in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS before 154ubuntu1.1, in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS before 173ubuntu0.1, in Ubuntu 17.04 before 179ubuntu0.1, and in Ubuntu 17.10 before 184ubuntu1.1 allows local users to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on a logfile in /var/log/postgresql.

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/01/msg00002.html	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3476-1	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
	https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-postgresql/postgresql-common.git/commit/?id=c8989206ec360f199400c74f129f7b4cb878c1ee	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3476-2	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	n/a	n/a

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