Link Following Affecting texlive-bin package, versions <2014.20140926.35254-5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-TEXLIVEBIN-5696808
  • published25 Aug 2017
  • disclosed25 Aug 2017

Introduced: 25 Aug 2017

CVE-2015-5700  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 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:13 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.

CVSS Scores

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