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Link Following Affecting texlive-bin package, versions <2005.dfsg.2-1

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-TEXLIVEBIN-520100
  • published 13 Nov 2007
  • disclosed 13 Nov 2007
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Introduced: 13 Nov 2007

CVE-2007-5940 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-59 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 texlive-bin to version 2005.dfsg.2-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream texlive-bin package and not the texlive-bin package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

feynmf.pl in feynmf 1.08, as used in TeXLive 2007, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and execute arbitrary code via a symlink attack on the feynmf$$.pl temporary file.

CVSS Scores

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NVD

Recommended
5.9 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low