CVE-2018-19640

If the attacker manages to create files in the directory used to collect log files in supportutils before version 3.1-5.7.1 (e.g. with CVE-2018-19638) he can kill arbitrary processes on the local machine.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - security@opentext.com

Published

2019-03-05

Last modified

2024-09-17

Weaknesses

CWE-20, CWE-377

Affected products

• Supportutils (Opensuse)
• Supportutils (Suse)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00018.html
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1118463