Symlink Attack Affecting sosreport package, versions [0,]
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- published 10 Sep 2023
- disclosed 13 May 2022
- credit bmr-cymru
Introduced: 13 May 2022
CVE-2015-7529 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.
Overview
sosreport is a Set of tools to gather troubleshooting data from a system Sos is a set of tools that gathers information about system hardware and configuration. The information can then be used for diagnostic purposes and debugging. Sos is commonly used to help support technicians and developers.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack which 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.