CVE-2015-0858 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

Cool Projects TarDiff allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a pathname in a /tmp/tardiff-$$ temporary directory.

Cool Projects TarDiff allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a pathname in a /tmp/tardiff-$$ temporary directory.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 3.3. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 8 years ago

2016-05-06 17:59:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-05-09 18:36:00

Affected Software

Debian Linux 8.0 (Jessie)

8.0

TarDiff Project TarDiff

References

DSA-3562

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/tardiff.git/commit/?id=9bd6a07bc204472ac27242cea16f89943b43003a

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