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CentOS: (CVE-2015-7529) (Multiple Advisories): sos

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CentOS: (CVE-2015-7529) (Multiple Advisories): sos

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/17/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/06/2016
Modified
05/03/2019

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-sos

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