CVE-2015-7529

High

Description

sosreport 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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.8
Exploit probability—
ProductSosreport
PublishedNov 6, 2017
First seenNov 6, 2017

How to fix

Update
  • sosreport3.3 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
sosreportPyPI3.0 ≤ v < 3.3, 3.0 ≤ v3.3
sos_project sos3.0 ≤ v ≤ 3.8—
canonical ubuntu_linux14.04, 15.04, 15.10—
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop6.0, 7.0—
redhat enterprise_linux_server6.0, 7.0—
redhat enterprise_linux_server_aus7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.6, 7.7—
redhat enterprise_linux_server_eus6.7, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7—
redhat enterprise_linux_server_tus7.2, 7.3, 7.6, 7.7—
redhat enterprise_linux_workstation6.0, 7.0—

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