CVE-2015-0794 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

modules.d/90crypt/module-setup.sh in the dracut package before 037-17.30.1 in openSUSE 13.2 allows local users to have unspecified impact via a symlink attack on /tmp/dracut_block_uuid.map.

modules.d/90crypt/module-setup.sh in the dracut package before 037-17.30.1 in openSUSE 13.2 allows local users to have unspecified impact via a symlink attack on /tmp/dracut_block_uuid.map.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2015-11-19 20:59:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:27:00

Affected Software

OpenSUSE 13.2

13.2

Dracut Project Dracut

References

[opensuse-bugs] 20150619 [Bug 935338] dracut uses hardcoded /tmp/dracut_block_uuid.map filename - symlink attack

[opensuse-bugs] 20150619 [Bug 935338] VUL-0: CVE-2015-0794: dracut: uses hardcoded /tmp/dracut_block_uuid.map filename - symlink attack

openSUSE-SU-2015:2022

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