Link Following Affecting sosreport package, versions <3.2+git276-g7da50d6-3


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.44% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-SOSREPORT-287818
  • published6 Nov 2017
  • disclosed6 Nov 2017

Introduced: 6 Nov 2017

CVE-2015-7529  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-59  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 sosreport to version 3.2+git276-g7da50d6-3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sosreport package and not the sosreport package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1