CVE-2016-1247

Description

The nginx package before 1.6.2-5+deb8u3 on Debian jessie, the nginx packages before 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, before 1.10.0-0ubuntu0.16.04.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and before 1.10.1-0ubuntu1.1 on Ubuntu 16.10, and the nginx ebuild before 1.10.2-r3 on Gentoo allow local users with access to the web server user account to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the error log.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-22

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/P3WOO7E5R2HT5XVOIOFPEFALILVOWZUF/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ESTIADC7BDB6VTH4JAP6C6OCW2CQ4NHP/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CBIZEKHBOCKO7FUMCO4X53ENMWU5OYFX/

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3114-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037104

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93903

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/539796/100/0/threaded

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3701

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jan/33

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Nov/78

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3