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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-15396: HylaFAX: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2020-15396: HylaFAX: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
06/30/2020
Created
07/28/2020
Added
07/28/2020
Modified
07/28/2020

Description

In HylaFAX+ through 7.0.2 and HylaFAX Enterprise, the faxsetup utility calls chown on files in user-owned directories. By winning a race, a local attacker could use this to escalate his privileges to root.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-misc-hylafaxplus

References

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