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CVE-2015-3243 (GCVE-0-2015-3243)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-07-25 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 05:39
VLAI
Summary
rsyslog uses weak permissions for generating log files, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading files in /var/log/cron.
CWE
  • n/a
References
Date Public
2015-06-17 00:00
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