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Ubuntu: USN-3788-1 (CVE-2015-5700): Tex Live vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3788-1 (CVE-2015-5700): Tex Live vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:C/A:N)
Published
08/25/2017
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/18/2018
Modified
09/12/2020

Description

mktexlsr revision 22855 through revision 36625 as packaged in texlive allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-texlive-binaries

References

  • USN-3788-1
  • USN-3788-2
  • CVE-2015-5700

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