CVE-2020-8017

Medium

Description

A Race Condition Enabling Link Following vulnerability in the cron job shipped with texlive-filesystem of SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP1, SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5; openSUSE Leap 15.1 allows local users in group mktex to delete arbitrary files on the system This issue affects: SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Desktop Applications 15-SP1 texlive-filesystem versions prior to 2017.135-9.5.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP4 texlive-filesystem versions prior to 2013.74-16.5.1. SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP5 texlive-filesystem versions prior to 2013.74-16.5.1. openSUSE Leap 15.1 texlive-filesystem versions prior to 2017.135-lp151.8.3.1.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.2
Exploit probability—
ProductOpensuse Texlive-filesystem
PublishedApr 2, 2020
First seenApr 2, 2020
Weakness typeCWE-367CWE-367

How to fix

Update
  • opensuse texlive-filesystem2017.135-9.5.1, 2013.74-16.5.1, 2017.135-lp151.8.3.1 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
opensuse texlive-filesystemv < 2017.135-9.5.1, v < 2013.74-16.5.1, No range specified, v < 2017.135-lp151.8.3.12017.135-9.5.1, 2013.74-16.5.1, 2017.135-lp151.8.3.1
opensuse leap15.1—

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