vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2015-0858): tardiff vulnerability

Severity

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Published

May 6, 2016

Added

Nov 19, 2024

Modified

Mar 27, 2026

Description

Cool Projects TarDiff allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a pathname in a /tmp/tardiff-$$ temporary directory.

ubuntu-upgrade-tardiff

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