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CVE-2015-7529

Publication date 11 December 2015

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.8 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
sosreport 15.10 wily
Fixed 3.2-2ubuntu1.1
15.04 vivid
Fixed 3.2-2ubuntu0.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 3.1-1ubuntu2.2
12.04 LTS precise Not in release

Patch details

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Package Patch details
sosreport

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.8 · High
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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