CVE-2015-1869

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jan 14, 2020
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Feb 17, 2015

Description

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
ABRTABRT	before 7417505e1d93cc95ec648b74e3c801bc67aacb9fAffected

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/04/17/5
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212861
https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/3287aa12eb205cff95cdd00d6d6c5c9a4f8f0eca
https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/7417505e1d93cc95ec648b74e3c801bc67aacb9f

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