Detections
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CVE-2015-7529
high
Description
sosreport in SoS 3.x allows local users to obtain sensitive information from sosreport files or gain privileges via a symlink attack on an archive file in a temporary directory, as demonstrated by sosreport-$hostname-$date.tar in /tmp/sosreport-$hostname-$date.
References
https://github.com/sosreport/sos/issues/696
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1282542
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0188
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0152
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2845-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/83162