CVE-2015-5700 — Link Following in Texlive-bin

CWE-59 — Link FollowingCWE-377 — Insecure Temporary File12 documents7 sources
Severity
6.1MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 74.52%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Debian Texlive-binTUG Texlive
Timeline
PublishedAug 25
Latest updateMay 17

Description

mktexlsr revision 22855 through revision 36625 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:NExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 4.2

Affected Packages2 packages

▶debiandebian/texlive-bin< texlive-bin 2014.20140926.35254-5 (bookworm)+1
▶NVDtug/texlive5 versions+4

Patches

Patch: bugzilla.redhat.com ↗Patch: www.tug.org ↗Patch: bugzilla.redhat.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-548j-7qqv-2mvf: mktexlsr revision 36855, and before revision 36626 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack↗2022-05-17
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GHSA
GHSA-hqv5-49rw-222p: mktexlsr revision 22855 through revision 36625 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack↗2022-05-14
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OSV
texlive-bin vulnerabilities↗2018-10-11
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OSV
CVE-2015-5700: mktexlsr revision 22855 through revision 36625 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack↗2017-08-25
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📋Vendor Advisories

5
Ubuntu
Tex Live vulnerabilities↗2018-10-11
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Red Hat
texlive: insecure use of /tmp in mktexlsr↗2015-01-11
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Red Hat
texlive: insecure use of /tmp in mktexlsr↗2015-01-11
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Debian
CVE-2015-5701: texlive-bin - mktexlsr revision 36855, and before revision 36626 as packaged in texlive allows...↗2015
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Debian
CVE-2015-5700: texlive-bin - mktexlsr revision 22855 through revision 36625 as packaged in texlive allows loc...↗2015
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-5700 CVE-2015-5701 texlive: insecure use of /tmp in mktexlsr↗2015-01-12
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