FKIE_CVE-2020-8017

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2020-04-02 14:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:25
Severity
6.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
References
meissner@suse.dehttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00021.htmlBroken Link, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
meissner@suse.dehttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158910Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00021.htmlBroken Link, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1158910Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
opensuse texlive-filesystem *
suse linux_enterprise_desktop 15
opensuse texlive-filesystem *
suse linux_enterprise_software_development_kit 12
opensuse texlive-filesystem *
suse linux_enterprise_software_development_kit 12
opensuse texlive-filesystem -
suse linux_enterprise_desktop 15
opensuse texlive-filesystem *
opensuse leap 15.1
opensuse leap 15.1
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