Security Advisory

CVE-2015-5287

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-12-07 18:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 06:41:09
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The abrt-hook-ccpp help program in Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) before 2.7.1 allows local users with certain permissions to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file with a predictable name, as demonstrated by /var/tmp/abrt/abrt-hax-coredump or /var/spool/abrt/abrt-hax-coredump.