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high7.8

CVE-2015-7529

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 te…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
Sos ProjectSos
from 3.0 through 3.8
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 14.04, 15.04, 15.10
RedhatEnterprise Linux Desktop
Versions 6.0, 7.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server
Versions 6.0, 7.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server Aus
Versions 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.6, 7.7
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server Eus
Versions 6.7, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server Tus
Versions 7.2, 7.3, 7.6, 7.7
RedhatEnterprise Linux Workstation
Versions 6.0, 7.0

Weakness classification

References