CVE-2015-5701

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 6.1 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-08-25

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-59

Affected products

• Texlive (Tug)

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/30/6
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775139
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181167
• https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?r1=19613&r2=22885
• https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?view=log