CVE-2015-7529

NameCVE-2015-7529
Descriptionsosreport 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
sosreport (PTS)buster3.6-1fixed
bookworm, bullseye4.0-2fixed
trixie, sid4.0-2.1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
sosreportsource(unstable)3.2+git276-g7da50d6-3unimportant

Notes

Neutralised by kernel hardening
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