Link Following The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package sosreport (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-SOSREPORT-5695713
- published6 Nov 2017
- disclosed6 Nov 2017
Introduced: 6 Nov 2017
CVE-2015-7529 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:13.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sosreport package and not the sosreport package as distributed by Debian.
sosreport in SoS 3.x allows local users to obtain sensitive information from sosreport files or gain privileges via a symlink attack on an archive file in a temporary directory, as demonstrated by sosreport-$hostname-$date.tar in /tmp/sosreport-$hostname-$date.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7529
- https://github.com/sosreport/sos/issues/696
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1282542
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0152.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0188.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0152
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0188
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83162
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-7529
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2845-1
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-7529