CVE-2015-5701

Description

mktexlsr revision 36855, and before revision 36626 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack. NOTE: this vulnerability exists due to the reversion of a fix of CVE-2015-5700.

References

https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?view=log

https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?r1=19613&r2=22885

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181167

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775139

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/30/6

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3