Vulnerability CVE-2015-5701
Published: 2017-08-25

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:C/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5.6/10
7.8/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Complete
None
Affected software
TUG -> Texlive 

 References:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/30/6
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=775139
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181167
https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?r1=19613&r2=22885
https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/texk/kpathsea/mktexlsr?view=log
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