CVE-2015-7758

Upstream information

CVE-2015-7758 at MITRE

Description

Gummi 0.6.5 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary dot file that uses the name of an existing file and a (1) .aux, (2) .log, (3) .out, (4) .pdf, or (5) .toc extension for the file name, as demonstrated by .thesis.tex.aux.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	2.1
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	None

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 949682 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• openSUSE-SU-2015:2369-1, published Sun, 27 Dec 2015 01:11:43 +0100 (CET)
• openSUSE-SU-2016:0574-1, published Thu, 25 Feb 2016 11:11:50 +0100 (CET)

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE Tumbleweed	gummi >= 0.7.4.3-2.6 gummi-lang >= 0.7.4.3-2.6	Patchnames: openSUSE Tumbleweed GA gummi-0.7.4.3-2.6