cve-2015-1869
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-01-14 17:31
Modified
2024-08-06 04:54
Severity ?
Summary
The default event handling scripts in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) allow local users to gain privileges as demonstrated by a symlink attack on a var_log_messages file.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/17/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212861Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/3287aa12eb205cff95cdd00d6d6c5c9a4f8f0ecaPatch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/7417505e1d93cc95ec648b74e3c801bc67aacb9fPatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/17/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212861Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/3287aa12eb205cff95cdd00d6d6c5c9a4f8f0ecaPatch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/7417505e1d93cc95ec648b74e3c801bc67aacb9fPatch, Third Party Advisory
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