Link Following Affecting texlive-bin package, versions <2014.20140926.35254-5
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-TEXLIVEBIN-522192
- published 25 Aug 2017
- disclosed 25 Aug 2017
Introduced: 25 Aug 2017
CVE-2015-5700 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11 texlive-bin to version 2014.20140926.35254-5 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.
mktexlsr revision 22855 through revision 36625 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5700
- 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
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775139
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/30/6
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181167
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-5700
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3788-1/
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