Vulnerability CVE-2016-3992
Published: 2016-07-26

Description:
cronic before 3 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) cronic.out.$$, (2) cronic.err.$$, or (3) cronic.trace.$$ file in /tmp.

Type:

CWE-284

 (Improper Access Control)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.9/10
6.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Complete
None
Affected software
Project cronic -> Cronic 
Opensuse -> LEAP 
Opensuse -> Opensuse 
Novell -> LEAP 
Novell -> Opensuse 
Debian -> Debian linux 
Cronic project -> Cronic 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-07/msg00013.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/09/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/10/2
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=820331
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