CVE-2020-15396

NameCVE-2020-15396
DescriptionIn HylaFAX+ through 7.0.2 and HylaFAX Enterprise, the faxsetup utility calls chown on files in user-owned directories. By winning a race, a local attacker could use this to escalate his privileges to root.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs964198

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
hylafax (PTS)bullseye3:6.0.7-3.1fixed
bookworm3:6.0.7-5fixed
trixie3:6.0.7-11.1fixed
forky, sid3:6.0.7-13fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
hylafaxsource(unstable)3:6.0.7-3.1964198

Notes

[buster] - hylafax <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[stretch] - hylafax <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://sourceforge.net/p/hylafax/HylaFAX+/2534/
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