Link Following Affecting tardiff package, versions <0.1-3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-TARDIFF-1560292
  • published6 May 2016
  • disclosed6 May 2016

Introduced: 6 May 2016

CVE-2015-0858  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 tardiff to version 0.1-3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tardiff package and not the tardiff package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

Cool Projects TarDiff allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a pathname in a /tmp/tardiff-$$ temporary directory.