CVE-2015-5287

Description

The abrt-hook-ccpp help program in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) before 2.7.1 allows local users with certain permissions to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file with a predictable name, as demonstrated by /var/tmp/abrt/abrt-hax-coredump or /var/spool/abrt/abrt-hax-coredump.

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38832/

https://github.com/abrt/abrt/commit/3c1b60cfa62d39e5fff5a53a5bc53dae189e740e

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78137

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2505.html

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154592/ABRT-sosreport-Privilege-Escalation.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3