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ELSA-2016-0152 Moderate: Oracle Linux sos security and bug fix update

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ELSA-2016-0152 Moderate: Oracle Linux sos security and bug fix update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/09/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
02/12/2016
Modified
04/11/2019

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)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-sos

References

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