Improper Access Control The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package elog (opens in a new tab)
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Start learning- Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-ELOG-1544908
- published27 Jun 2017
- disclosed27 Jun 2017
Introduced: 27 Jun 2017
CVE-2016-6342 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:12.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream elog package and not the elog package as distributed by Debian.
elog 3.1.1 allows remote attackers to post data as any username in the logbook.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6342
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N4ZQOPXSMJAJIXH5MRPQS2ZISYJPSLQK/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1371328
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-6342
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/N4ZQOPXSMJAJIXH5MRPQS2ZISYJPSLQK/