CVE-2020-15396

Description

In HylaFAX+ through 7.0.2 and HylaFAX Enterprise, the faxsetup utility calls chown on files in user-owned directories. By winning a race, a local attacker could use this to escalate his privileges to root.

References

https://sourceforge.net/p/hylafax/HylaFAX+/2534/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-06

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y46FOVJUS5SO44A2VEKR7DXEHTI4WK5L/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/J52QFVREJWJ35YSEEDDRMZQ2LM2H2WE6/

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173521

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00054.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00046.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00040.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00039.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3